Of course he blames the US and the CIA for all the evils of the world, and for "creating" Saddam Hussein.

And in 1969, I suppose it was the US who told Saddam to take nine Jews and hang them in the main square in Baghdad, accused of spying for America and Israel???

On his book "A Brutal Friendship":

"Aburish's explanation for Arab tyranny dwells not on the foibles of culture in Arabic-speaking countries; not on their premodern legacy of dictatorship; and not on the winner-take-all atmosphere that dominates their politics. What emerges from Aburish's pages, in a nutshell, is that nearly all the problems of the Middle East are due to a vast British and American conspiracy that aims to perpetuate "Western political hegemony" in the regime.

To anyone not versed in matters Middle Eastern, the extremist bent of A Brutal Friendship might make it seem like the slightly deranged musings of one out-of-touch intellectual. Unhappily, its outlook cannot be so easily dismissed. Outlandish as it may be, the book represents a main line of Arab thinking, one that is embraced as well by any number of leading politicians, military officers, religious authorities, journalists, and academics."