Friday's Arabic papers focus on the legitimacy of the US military presence in Iraq, as well as on the 'mystery' of Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction.
Washington's warnings to Syria and its refusal to find fault with Israel are also widely covered.
Colonisers have gone back to their old ways, more than half a century after hideous colonisation ended.
Tishrin - Syria
The USA keeps calling for people's freedom and dignity, yet it ignores the Israeli occupation and its attacks against women and children.
Al-Thawrah - Syria
Bin Laden remains a mystery. The whereabouts of Saddam Hussein, the 'father of gas', will remain a mystery until the USA says otherwise. Only time will tell the truth, or perhaps no truth will ever be found.
Al-Ahram - Egypt
It seems that the story of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, which the US and UK used as justification to attack and destroy Iraq, has become an April fool's joke.
Al-Akhbar - Egypt
The rift between the Arab regimes is to blame for the permanent presence of foreign troops in Arab countries.
Al-Jumhuriyah - Yemen
The USA knows that Israel possesses an arsenal of chemical, nuclear and biological weapons. How strange that it ignores this and, instead, threatens Syria.
Al-Watan - Saudi Arabia
With Saddam's fall, the Iraqis were freed from oppression after almost 25 years. They are now under the US spears. We now ask ourselves: Who will govern Iraq next?
Al-Watan - Kuwait
The hidden agenda of pressure on Damascus is to provoke it through unrealistic demands and wage war against it, in order to weaken it militarily and so prepare a Road Map for Syria.
Al-Watan - Qatar
Under the current occupation, Iraq is facing a difficult and dangerous situation... Iraqis are ready to make sacrifices to oppose any option they don't want.
Al-Khalij - UAE
There are indications that everyone is eyeing Iraq's wealth. The greedy should know that the people will defend their wealth and never allow it to be looted again.
Al-Bayan - UAE
Genuine liberators enter cities by the front door and not the back windows... What is happening in Iraq is not liberation, but a US occupation.
Al-Quds Al-Arabi - London-based
The USA is taking steps to share the booty with the 10 small and poor countries which recently joined the EU and announced their support for the aggression.
Al-Arab al-Alamiyah - London-based
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