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Friday paper in Cairo:
"American massacre in Afghanistan"
(cairolive.com, October 12, 2001) With casualty figures from Afghanistan starting to appear, opposition daily Al-Wafd headlines its Friday edition, "A horrible American massacre in Afghanistan".
The paper also features an item quoting the head of Qatari satellite channel Al-Jazeera, who rejected US pressure for the channel to tone down its "harsh and irresponsible" commentary on the US attacks. Jazeera promised to show more bin Laden clips whenever they got them -- and especially if it meant an exclusive for the channel.
On Al-Akhbar's back page on Thursday, cartoonist Mustafa Hussein and writer Ahmed Ragab continue to flay the US's Afghan campaign -- this time they show an Afghan man sitting in the midst of a rocky desert eating a hamburger. A plane flying overhead is dropping both food and bombs over the parched landscape. "Where's the ketchup you infidels?" the Afghan man yells at the plane...
During his meeting with President Mubarak on Thursday morning in Cairo, British Prime Minister Tony Blair insisted that the war on terrorism was not a battle between Islam and the West. Blair also expressed his support for a Palestinian state.
Most of the papers, meanwhile, focus some of their front page attention on yesterday's phone call between US President George Bush and Moroccan King Mohamed. Bush affirmed his support for a Palestinian state, and the implementation of UN resolutions 242 and 338 for a lasting and just solution to the Palestinian-Israeli crisis.
...Developing...
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