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Politics : Pres. George W. Bush
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To: KLP who wrote (110)9/10/2002 12:25:21 PM
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Bin Laden Still a Hero in Pro-U.S. Kuwait
Tue Sep 10, 5:48 AM ET

KUWAIT (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden is still a hero for most people in close U.S. ally Kuwait, according to a poll published on Tuesday.

Eleven years after U.S.-led troops ousted Iraqi forces from Kuwait, many Kuwaiti residents have a positive view of the man accused of inflicting a terrible blow on their saviors last September 11.

Many Arabs believe they are suffering the fallout from the "war on terror" which the United States launched in the aftermath of the September attacks on Washington and New York that killed more than 3,000 people. That frustration has translated into rising anti-Americanism and street protests.

An opinion poll published in Kuwait's al-Rai al-Aam daily on Tuesday said 74.35 percent of 11,695 answers by Kuwaitis and residents said bin Laden was a "hero."

The oil-rich state has a foreign population of some 1.4 million people and 870,300 Kuwaitis. The poll did not say how many respondents were Kuwaitis.

The poll showed that 19.44 percent of respondents regarded the Saudi-born dissident as a "criminal," while 6.21 percent had no opinion on the issue.

Kuwait has come out strongly against the September attacks, which the United States blames on bin Laden and his al Qaeda network, and has sided with Washington in its war on terror.

Senior Kuwaiti officials, possibly led by Crown Prince and Prime Minister Sheikh Saad al-Abdulla al-Sabah, are due to attend a ceremony at the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait on Wednesday to commemorate the anniversary of the attacks.
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