Last week, the US military in Iraq recorded 2,974 casualties - one more than the number of people killed on 9/11.
    Some 19,773 Americans have been injured during the so-caleld war against terrorism. Of that number, 8991 are so badly wounded that they can never serve their country in uniform again.
    These figures were presented by the US chief of staff in his testimony in Congress.
    In other words, the Bush administration is not good at protecting Americans lives. Instead, thousands more are being sent to their deaths…

    Bush has committed countless sins under the pretext of the war against terrorism. However, the biggest sin is his failure to define terrorism and confuse terrorism with liberation movements against foreign occupation.
    The greatest false claims is that the war he has launched is not merely a military conflict, but also an ideological struggle of the 21st century.
    Bush then insulted Muslims when he described Islam as "fascist."
    Bush’s war against terrorism has given the terrorists a broader scope for their activities in places that had never experienced terrorism.
    Bush’s aggressive policies and the murder of thousands of civilians have fueled the terrorist ideology and made it more attractive to those who believe that killing Americans is the shortest way to paradise.

Nabil Zaki, "US Killing Machine," in Al-Ahal (described as "leftist opposition daily"), reprinted in The Egytpian Gazette, Monday, September 11, 2006. The article was printed under the op-ed page’s "alternate view" header.

I’ve read two op-ed pages of The Egyptian Gazette so far- the staff editorial runs in the top left corner in bold print and maybe three times the font size as the other articles. I read a pretty straight-forward editorial against Israel’s destruction of Lebanon last week. Here’s today’s 9/11 editorial:

Five Years Later

FIVE years after the september 11 attacks, neither the US nor the world feel safer than before. Vulnerability is the keyword. Bin Ladenism has thrived on US foreign policy blunders.
    The sympathy generated post 9/11, especially in the Muslim World has been dissipated by Americans misdeeds in the Middle East. Whether deliberately or not, US president George W. Bush has antagonised first by terming his country’s ‘war on terror’ as a crusade. The term has agonising implications in the Muslim memory. About a month ago, he talked about determination to fight what he called Islamofascism. His talk came against the backdrop of Israel’s devastating war in Lebanon.
    Bush’s lexicon has reinforced the notion widely held among Muslims that the US sees in Islam its new foe now that the Soviet Union has crumbled. This lends credence to the so-called clash of civilisations.
    Adding to this perception is the US administration’s obstinate obsession with militarism as the Key to uprooting global terrorism. This approach has proven myopic and counter-productive. Iraq is a glaring example.