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To: U Up U Down who wrote (18181)	10/11/2001 11:56:33 AM
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Anti-U.S. Protests Continue in Indonesia Xinhuanet 2001.10.11 18:50:24 JAKARTA, October 11 (Xinhuanet) -- Protests over the U.S.-led attacks on Afghanistan continued in several cities of Indonesia on Thursday. In Jakarta, Hundreds of students again staged rally in front of the U.S. embassy to protest the U.S. military attacks. During the rally, the students issued a four-point statement urging the United Nations to take action against the U.S. for violating human rights and protesting the U.S. for taking the law into its own hands over the Afghanistan crisis. The U.S. embassy is under tight control with five companies of security personnel, equipped with a water cannon, deployed around the building. In Surabaya, capital of East Java province, hundreds of demonstrators staged protests at the provincial legislative building, asking the government to sever diplomatic relations with the U.S. They carried banners that read, "Boycott U.S. products." Thousands of students from the Indonesian Muslim University in Makassar, capital of South Sulawesi province, also went to the provincial legislative building, urging the government to confiscate U.S. assets in Indonesia and to sever diplomatic relations with the U.S. They also hauled down street banners or billboards of the U.S. products, and tried to close the McDonald's restaurant. Demonstrators in Ambon, capital of Maluku province, and Pekanbaru, capital of Riau province, also strongly condemned the U. S. action and asked the government to sever relations with the U.S. In Yogyakarta, Central Java, hundreds of students from various universities had symbolically sealed the front door of Pizza Hut with dozens of posters. Some posters read, "This restaurant is sealed," "Eating here means killing the poor Afghans" and "Freeze and boycott U.S. investments here." The students also sealed McDonald's by pasting posters on McDonald's windows. Meanwhile, outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia Robert Gelbard Thursday met with President Megawati Soekarnoputri at the state palace here to bid her farewell. He, however, did not make any statement after holding the 25- minute meeting with the head of state. The Antara News Agency reported that Ralph Boyce, who will replace Gelbard, will arrive in Jakarta this week. Enditem news.xinhuanet.com Iraq Makes Public Official Reply to U.S. Warning Xinhuanet 2001.10.11 20:52:04 BAGHDAD, October 11 (Xinhuanet) -- Iraq Thursday made public its official reply to Sunday's stern warning by the U.S. who threatened that Iraq will pay a heavy price for exploiting the crisis over Afghanistan. According to an official copy obtained by Xinhua, the Iraqi Ministry of Information said that the U.S. had demanded Iraq not to benefit from the situation. "If you use force against your neighbors, Israel, the Kurdish side, or any other part of the Iraqi people, then we will reply very strongly to defeat you," the copy quoted the U.S. message as saying. "Any use of weapons of mass destruction against the U.S., our forces, or even our friends and allies will be faced with destructive results. Our reply will be crushing," the U.S. message said. Iraq's official reply, which was made on Monday, slammed the U. S. stance as "naive, silly and arrogant" and accused the Bush administration of "not learning from lessons in the past." However, "The contents and timing of your message is irrelevant, because when Iraq has a lost right and finds the right time to retrieve it, it is not afraid of you or others," the official reply said. "But none of the points mentioned in your message and your warning are on Iraq's agenda," the reply message stressed. John Negroponte, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, met on Sunday with his Iraqi counterpart Mohammad al-Duri and delivered an oral message to him. It was believed to be the first top-level direct contact between the two enemies over the past 10 years. U.S. officials disclosed that Negroponte warned that there are " three red lines" which Iraq must not cross: to threaten its neighbors, to oppress the Kurdish ethnic minority in northern Iraq and to use its weapons of mass destruction. Moreover, U.S. officials said that there is no connection between the warning to Iraq and a letter conveyed by Negroponte to the U.N. Security Council saying that the war on terrorism might extend beyond Afghanistan. Enditem news.xinhuanet.com