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No offense intended but, been there, done that . . .
The entire world is not going to take this any more, period.
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From: "azeem" <azeemb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 3:13 PM
Subject: [RT] off topic :how does this effect the mkts tomorrow
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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