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America at War --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- War increases Arab hatred of America By LANCE GAY Scripps Howard News Service Mar 28, 2003, 07:20 The Arab view of the United States could hardly be bleaker. Arabs protest war Dislike of America is turning into hatred, reports U.S. pollster John Zogby, who has been monitoring views in six Middle East countries. Meantime, Arab newspapers this week are filled with pictures of hospitalized civilians and stories that claim the real goal of the United States is to capture the region's oil. "The views on the United States are the lowest I've ever seen," said Zogby, himself an Arab-American, who conducted a poll of Middle East sentiment earlier this month in Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. "The war is having an impact on the region," he said. He said the polls are showing that from 79 percent to 94 percent of the people who live in the Middle East believe the war is going to result in less democracy. British and American commanders are loudly condemning the way some Arab organizations are covering the war. Air Marshal Brian Burridge, commander of the British forces in Iraq, lashed out Thursday at what he has seen on the Arab satellite TV network al-Jazeera, which has broadcast Iraqi interviews of American prisoners of war and pictures of Americans. Thursday, the network broadcast pictures of wounded people from a missile explosion in Baghdad, asking, "is this the freedom promised to the Iraqi people?" The Pentagon said an investigation has failed to find any coalition bomb fired that could have caused the damage. "That type of reporting is neither balanced, nor should anybody take any pride in it. Take it from me," Burridge said. But Al-Jazeera's coverage reflects what is being said in other newspapers throughout the Islamic world. Newspapers Thursday were filled with pictures of Iraqi children fleeing the Baghdad market and pictures of Iraqis in hospital beds. Syria's al-Thawrah newspaper this week urged the Arab world to rise up against the U.S-led war "and transform the whole of Iraq into a grave for the aggressors." Al-Khalij, a leading newspaper in the United Arab Emirates, said the U.S. intervention signaled a wider war in the Middle East. "The Mongols of this century will not be content with Iraq when they swallow it up," the newspaper said. Meanwhile, in a Cairo newspaper, former Egyptian minister of war Amin Huweidi compared George Bush's policies to those of Adolf Hitler. Bruce Kuniholm, a professor of public policy and history at Duke University, said that while many of Iraq's neighbors don't like Saddam Hussein, they also resent the presence of U.S. troops on Arab lands. He said the Bush administration's arguments about the need to control Iraq's weapons of mass destruction aren't getting through to most of those in the Middle East, who suspect that the United States is at war with Iraq only for the country's oil reserves and to expand U.S. control over Arab lands. "I think the United States is going to take a pretty big hit on this," Kuniholm said. "There's a relatively simplistic structure on the (Arab) streets when looking at the United States." <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
