The Gulf Daily News (Bahrain) is reporting that Egypt's media slammed the US ambassador in Cairo yesterday after he apparently called for the Press to more carefully edit commentary relating to the September 11 attacks. The spat, highlighting high anti-US feeling in the region, erupted when Ambassador David Welch attacked a rash of recent commentaries and editorials which questioned whether Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda group, including an Egyptian, was behind the attacks. "This can harm Egypt's media in the eyes of the world. I hope newspaper editors take that into account when they review articles before publication," Welch wrote in the main state-owned daily Al Ahram. "A responsible media must publish the truth not lies, and people should know the difference," he added in the article printed in Arabic. A statement issued yesterday by newspaper columnists, writers and cartoonists from state-owned and opposition papers said Welch should "go back to his country", accusing the US media as "only seeing the region through Israeli eyes".