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Subject: Massive Worldwide Opposition to Military Strikes
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[According to a recent poll it seems that the overwhelming majority of the
world opposes US military aggression. This is made more significant if one
considers that the poll in question does not include the over 1/3rd of
humanity represented by India and China and the over 1-billion Muslims.
worldwide who also overwhelmingly oppose US military strikes. Pakistan was
the only Islamic country polled, no Arab countries were polled, Russia
wasn't
polled, and of course no "rogue states" were querried for info. Nonetheless
the poll results are striking and should encourage the peace movement to
move
forward more strongly to press for an end to the current war-footing.]
Int'l opinion opposes U.S. military strike - poll
ZURICH, Sept 21 (Reuters) - International public opinion opposes a massive
U.S. military strike to retaliate for suicide attacks on America by hijacked
aircraft, according to a Gallup poll in 31 countries whose results were
released on Friday.
Only in Israel and the United States did a majority favour a military
response against states shown to harbour terrorists, the survey found.
People
questioned elsewhere preferred to see suspected terrorists extradited and
put
on trial.
"Around 80 percent of Europeans and around 90 percent of South Americans
favour extradition and a court verdict. By European comparison, calls for a
tough military response were above average among the French (29 percent) and
the Dutch (28 percent)," said Swiss polling firm Isopublic, which conducted
the survey in Switzerland.
Seventy-seven percent of Israelis backed military action,
while 54 percent of Americans were in favour, it said.
The surveys were done between September 17 and 19, around a week after the
September 11 suicide attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the
Pentagon in Washington killed more than 6,000 people.
U.S. officials have named Saudi-born dissident Osama bin Laden the prime
suspect and have threatened military action if Afghanistan, where bin Laden
lives, does not hand him over.
Clear majorities of between 70 and 80 percent supported limiting any strike
to military rather than civilian targets, the survey found.
Asked if their own country should support a U.S. military asssault, people
in
NATO countries other than Greece tended to agree.
Four out of five Danes backed the idea, followed by 79 percent in Britain
and
73 percent in France. Greeks were the least enthusiastic with only 29
percent, below 53 percent in Germany and 58 percent in Norway and Spain.
The survey was done in Argentina, Austria, Bosnia, Britain, Bulgaria,
Croatia, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,
Israel,
Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway,
Pakistan, Peru, Portugal, Romania, South Africa, South Korea, Spain,
Switzerland, the United States and Zimbabwe.
08:15 09-21-01
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