About 100 Egyptian university students held posters denouncing the US and Israeli leaders as an "axis of evil" during a pro-Palestinian sit-in at a Cairo traffic circle.
Several police officers watched the students from the American University in Cairo, who sat or stood peacefully on the grass of the traffic circle, opposite their campus and near the Egyptian Museum, an AFP photographer said.
They held red-white-green-and-black Palestinian flags and raised a poster that read "True Axis of Evil," with photographs of US President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
In his January 29 State of the Union address before Congress, Bush branded North Korea, Iran and Iraq in an "axis of evil" that may face the United States' wrath, and he has repeated the formula since then.
Anti-Israeli and anti-American protests have continued almost daily in Egypt since a vast Israeli offensive was launched in the West Bank on March 29.
It should be noted that according to emergency laws in force since former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981, the Egyptian authorities ban protests, though they tolerate them on university campuses and even more rarely off campus. (Albawaba.com)
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