Arab newspapers splashed the US presidential sex-and-lies scandal in bold type across their front pages on Saturday, but mostly refrained from commenting on the latest developments.
Lebanon's dailies concentrated on the factual content of independent counsel Kenneth Starr's report. Almost no commentary was made in the absence of an official reaction to the scandal that threatens the political future of the US President.
"The Clinton Presidency lets out its last gasps," headlined the opposition's Ath Thafir daily, while L'Orient-Le Jour described the release of the damning report as an "electronic lynching".
In Iraq, the scandal also stole the front pages. The loyalist Kurdish parties' Al-Iraq newspaper branded the White House a "House of Scandal", while others focused on the possibility of an impeachment.
"The Starr report presents 11 accusations, which constitute a death-blow for Clinton," said Babel, the newspaper owned by Uday, eldest son of the Iraqi President, Mr Saddam Hussein.
"The first step on the road to impeachment," said the ruling Ba'ath party's Ath Thawra daily.
In Egypt, newspapers did not comment on the scandal but ran lurid details of the allegations on their front page.
"Ten hot meetings between Clinton and Monica and crisis between the administration and Congress. Monica: I seduced the President and I gave him oral sex nine times," the pro-government Al Gumhuriya daily's front-page piece said next to a picture of Mr Clinton and his wife, Hillary.
Egypt's Islamic daily Al Ahrar remained resolutely unmoved by the issue, preferring to concentrate on the latest developments between Israel and the Palestinians. It ran a brief story on the scandal on an inside page.
In the conservative Gulf emirate of Kuwait, newspapers backed Clinton, instead turning their vitriol on what it described as a conspiracy orchestrated by US political groups.
"The ambition of these groups is to seize the reins of the administration, and the Lewinsky affair has given them a loaded gun," the Arab Times said. "A twenty-something young woman has practically held to ransom the administration of the most powerful nation on Earth," the newspaper said.
Salah al-Hashim, a columnist for the Arabic daily Al Rai Al-Aam, praised the American system, which, he said, was working well to achieve justice.
The fact that Mr Starr could pursue his investigations without prejudice and fear, and even "grill" the most powerful man in the world, proved the transparency of the American system, he said.