National Security Council speechwriter Ben Rhodes previews US President Barack Obama’s speech due to be delivered in Cairo on June 4, during a press briefing in Riyadh on June 3, 2009. Newspapers, analysts and ordinary Arabs warned Obama — whose election was hailed across the region — against emulating the policies of Bush by lecturing Muslims on democracy, and also urged him to be tough with Israel. Obama began his tour in Saudi Arabia and will deliver a speech in Cairo on June 4 to the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims, after eight years of fraught ties under his predecessor George W. Bush. AFP PHOTO/Saul LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
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