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Azeem:
Why did you title your summary of news
report ," .....ugly " ?
Is bombing of WTC and killing innocent
thousands of people a beauty ?
What is your religion and national origin ?
What is your intention of posting this
type of material in this forum ?
If it is off-topic, please do not even
bother to post it here.
--- azeem <azeemb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mood in US turns ugly
> Johannesburg | Sunday
>
>
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> ACCORDING to a survey conducted by United States
> broadcaster CBS and the New York Times, a majority
> of Americans seem willing to impose on others
> sufferings very similar to those they have so
> recently endured themselves.
> The poll indicates that 68% of Americans are
> prepared to see innocent people killed in any
> actions taken in retaliation for the attacks on the
> World Trade Centre and Pentagon.
> 67% are prepared to go to war with a nation
> harbouring those responsible, and 60% will support
> retaliatory attacks even if it means that "many
> thousands of innocent civilians are killed."
> An informal, unscientific poll on CNN currently
> shows that 70% of 63 000 respondents would be
> prepared to change US law to allow the assassination
> of "hostile foreign leaders".
>
> a.. Meanwhile, Osama bin Laden on Sunday denied any
> involvement in last week's terrorist attacks on New
> York and Washington.
> "The US is pointing the finger at me but I
> categorically state that I have not done this," bin
> Laden said in a statement sent to the Pakistan-based
> Afghan Islamic Press news agency.
> b.. Liberation fighters have no need to attack
> civilians, President Thabo Mbeki declared on Sunday,
> recalling the "moral" war against South Africa's
> apartheid regime.
> "Even as our enemy and its friends denounced our
> movement as terrorist, we took strict measures to
> avoid the use of terror against the people," Mbeki
> writes in a letter due to be posted this week on the
> African National Congress (ANC) Internet site in
> reaction to the attacks on the United States.
> "Our movement insisted that to resort to terrorism
> would be to dishonour our struggle and to destroy
> its morality," he says.
> Mbeki writes that the ANC opposed attacks on
> so-called soft targets but accuses the white rulers
> of the time of having no hesitation in resorting to
> terrorism to entrench their minority regime.
> He also calls for the restoration of the rights of
> the Palestinians.
> Nelson Mandela, who became South Africa's first
> black president with the end of apartheid in 1994,
> meanwhile urged the United States to show caution.
> "The United States must avoid any course of action
> which will be as unpopular as that of the
> terrorists," he said on a visit to Kimberley.
> "The United States' response must not be allowed now
> to raise or to intensify, hatred against the Arab
> nations and the Muslims.
> "The countries, both the masterminds and those who
> have executed this action, must be accurately
> identified and punished, most severely."
> c.. Egyptian Foreign Minster Ahmed Maher said on
> Saturday his country is cooperating with the US in
> the investigation in the September 11 attacks on the
> US, on a condolence visit to the US embassy here.
> According to investigation documents, one of a team
> of suspected plane hijackers who steered passenger
> jets into the World Trade Center in New York and the
> Pentagon in Washington, Mohamed Atta, was born in
> Egypt.
> "There is cooperation between Egypt and the United
> States in the inquiry underway," Maher told
> reporters at the US embassy, adding that there had
> been "an exchange of information."
> Maher said he had thanked US President George W.
> Bush for having reacted swiftly to xenophobic
> incidents against Arabs and Muslims in the United
> States in the wake of the attacks, in which Arab
> Muslims are implicated.
> Bush said Thursday that Americans "must be mindful
> that as we seek to win the war that we treat Arab
> Americans and Muslims with the respect they
> deserve."
>
> d.. But Maher accused Israel on Saturday of
> exploiting the aftermath of attacks on the United
> States to block moves towards peace with the
> Palestinians.
> "It is clear from the statements made by the Israeli
> Prime Minister (Ariel Sharon) since the attacks on
> New York and Washington that he wants to exploit the
> situation by any means to avoid any progress," Maher
> told reporters.
> The Egyptian minister warned Israel on Wednesday not
> to "complicate the situation" by stepping up attacks
> on the Palestinians.
> Maher said that Sharon's remarks comparing Arafat
> with Osama bin Laden, the US's prime suspect in the
> September 11 attacks, were "part of his attempt to
> block (peace moves) and part of his erroneous
> policies."
> e.. Egypt's banned Muslim Brotherhood said Saturday
> that all Arabs and Muslims would support the
> extradition of Osama bin Laden from Afghanistan to
> the United States if his involvement in the
> September 11 attacks on New York and Washington is
> established.
> But Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Maamun al-Hodeibi
> said the United States would be committing a
> "terrorist act" if it launches strikes on targets in
> Afghanistan without proof that bin Laden was
> involved in attacks on the US. -- DM&G reporter,
> Sapa, AFP
>
> FEATURES:
> Shattered World: A Daily Mail & Guardian special
> on the attack on the US
> OFF-SITE:
> The Guardian's special report on the attacks
>
>
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