Hossam el-Hamalawy
Via Al-Jazeera:
The US war in Iraq is lost and a further build-up of US troops in the country will not recover the situation, the senior Democrat in the US senate has said.
“This war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week,” Harry Reid, the senate Democratic majority leader, told reporters.
Dozens of leftist activists demonstrated yesterday afternoon, in front of the old HQ of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, in downtown Cairo, demanding the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador to Egypt, halting normalization with Tel Aviv and severing diplomatic ties, amid public anger over Israel’s killing of Egyptian POWs.