http://www.usatoday.com/news/2004-04-20-mubarak-arabs_x.htmPARIS (AP) — Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a major Arab ally of the United States, said in published remarks Tuesday that hatred of Americans in the Arab world was stronger now than ever because of the war in Iraq.
Mubarak also said Arab opinion of the United States had grown more negative because of Washington's continuing support for Israel.
"At the start, some believed that the Americans were helping them," Mubarak said in comments published Tuesday by French daily Le Monde. "There wasn't any hatred toward the Americans."
"After what has happened in Iraq, there is an unprecedented hatred and the Americans know it," he added. "There exists today a hatred never equaled in the region."