(AP) Donna Bryson - In the Arab world, military victories have been so scarce in recent decades that Arabs celebrate the mere fact that Iraq hasn't lost yet and that its people haven't surrendered in the face of America's technological superiority. Mokhtar Ali is a teacher escorting his students touring a Cairo museum dedicated to what Egyptians like to think of as the Arabs' last military triumph. The war museum's centerpiece, a giant mural in the round, depicts the Oct. 6, 1973, assault, with 400 Egyptian tanks crossing the Suez Canal and Syrian forces pouring into the Golan Heights. Visitors listen to the narrator of a sound and light show proclaim the 1973 battle the "greatest victory in history."
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