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SUBJECT: KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - LEBANON, IRAN, AND IRAQ 
 
 
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Monday, December 04 , 2006 
 
-- Under the title "And Change Began in Lebanon" Radical Shiite 
anti-U.S. former MP Dr. Abdul Mohsen Jamal penned in progressive 
Arabic daily Al-Qabas (12/04): 
 
"The funniest comment on the current events in Lebanon came from the 
U.S. Assistant Official Spokesman for the Department of State who 
stated 'the threat to use force and scare tactics is not considered 
a democratic or constitutional mechanism for changing 
governments.'" 
 
 
-- Radical Shiite anti-U.S. Dr. Sami Nasser Khalifa commented in 
moderate Arabic daily Al-Rai under the title "The Government Fell 
Even If It Remained" (12/04): 
 
"Where is the value and legitimacy of the government if it is 
rejected by the people?  What is the value of its decisions if they 
conflict with the spirit of accord embodied in the Lebanese 
constitution?  What is the use of this government -- labeled as 
hostage to the orders of the American Ambassador to Lebanon -- when 
it remains besieged in the Council of Ministers building?" 
 
-- "The Great Satan and the Small Satan" was the title of Mfarreh 
Salem Al-Dosari's piece in conservative Arabic daily Al-Watan in 
which he held that (12/04): 
 
"Iran labels the United States as the Greater Satan, meaning that 
there is a smaller Satan that is jealous over the hegemony by the 
Greater Satan....  The reality of the present rulers of Iran is not 
so different from that of their predecessors in terms of show of 
power, dissemination of slogans and interference in the affairs of 
others." 
 
-- Under the title "Gulf States and the Iraqi Conflict" liberal 
Kuwait University Political Science Professor, Dr. Shamlan Yousef 
Al-Issa editorialized in pro-government daily Al-Seyassah (12/04): 
 
"The 27th GCC Summit will be held at a time unprecedented warnings 
that the region will witness civil wars in Iraq, Lebanon, and 
Palestine.  It is not in the interest of the Gulf to support the 
Arab Sunnis in Iraq against the Arab Shiites there." 
 
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LEBARON