Few Arabs shedding tears over U.S. losses in Iraq

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Many still angry at bloody invasion and occupation of their neighbor

Cairo -- As American deaths mount in Iraq, there is little sympathy in the Arab world for the plight of the U.S. occupiers.

Still embittered by the invasion and shocked by the ease of America's military victory, few Arabs outside Iraq voice condemnation of the daily attacks on U.S. soldiers, Iraqi oil and water facilities or even the United Nations' Baghdad headquarters.

"Happiness probably isn't the right word," Cairo University political science Professor Muhammed Kamal said of the Arab response to the problems encountered by U.S.-led occupation forces in postwar Iraq. "But I think people do feel some sense of satisfaction."

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