Friday, 4 February 2011

From The Guardian's Egypt protests live blog

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad posted on the Guardian live blog some responses to the protests in Egypt from the rest of the Arab world. The most interesting response is from Iraqis:

The Iraqis I have talked to all expressed a sense of shame. A friend told me on the phone from Baghdad: "We Iraqis looted and gutted our museum in 2003 while the Egyptians protected theirs. They protected houses and public buildings while Baghdad was reduced to rubble within days of the fall of the regime. Egyptians love their country; they are patriotic; we weren't."

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