Arab press defiant on al-Qaeda

From The BBC

And guess who they blame for the attacks in Saudi Arabia?

First up is our friends from Egypt. Tell me again why we give them billions in aid.

The violence and terrorist operations that have been taking place in Saudi Arabia for days, weeks and months confirm once again that the phenomenon of terrorism is not in any way caused by Arabs and Muslims, as is being reported and promoted by a section of the international media. Stopping terrorism will not be possible unless there is widespread co-operation between the countries of the world, including the Gulf and Middle East states. The priority should be to extinguish the large fire which is consuming the whole world, and which is caused by the occupation of Iraq and Israel's aggression.

Egypt's al-Ahram

Despite the fact that Muslims have claimed responsibility for killing the "infidels".

Next we have our pals the Jordanians.

These days al-Qaeda is concentrating its operations in Saudi Arabia... with the aim of chasing out all the "infidels" from the kingdom. Their actions are actually an obvious invitation to the "infidels" to come and intervene under the pretext of protecting their oil supplies. Is this possible intervention another fishy concurrence between al-Qaeda and the extremist neo-conservatives in the Bush Administration?

Jordan's al-Dustur

As they say, with friends like these....
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