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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (5463)	10/16/2001 6:35:52 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi IQBAL LATIF; Re the Dunkin Donuts &c. What's probably going on is that the quiet majority of people who have some admiration for the U.S. are voting with their pocket books under the assumption that Dunkin Donuts needs the business. The same thing is happening here as well. We all read the paper and we know that all kinds of foreigners (but particularly Arabs and Sikhs) have been the focus of the anger of some Americans. The reaction of a lot of people here is to go a little out of their way to show compassion, or at least tolerance. This is something that has been organized at the highest levels of the country. Bush dragged the press corps into a Mosque a few weeks back. But it's more than that. Every major newspaper has carried articles saying that mainstream Islam is peace loving, and that the terrorists are not at all representative of the countries they came from. This is true even of the outrageous tabloids like the National Enquirer and Globe. The pictures from the WTC are incredibly inflammatory, it's surprising to me how well the media has kept the public relatively calm. -- Carl P.S. By the way, WWN's latest cover has "bat boy", (a boy supposedly born with bat like powers, who is essentially the paper's mascot) joining up with the U.S. Marines to help search for bin Laden in the caves of Afghanistan: weeklyworldnews.com More on Batboy: weeklyworldnews.com nationalenquirer.com

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (5463)	10/16/2001 12:19:20 PM
From: SirRealist	Respond to of 281500

Your report confirms what I suspected Ike. I often distrust our media because many old soldiers tell me most of the reporters hang out in bars and do not go seek the truth, out of fear. Hope business stays brisk!

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (5463)	10/16/2001 3:27:49 PM
From: Jill	Respond to of 281500

Ike, that is really interesting, and a unique perspective. The dunkin donuts analysis of sociology <g>. But it makes a lot of sense. Thanx.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (5463)	10/22/2001 10:33:53 AM
From: Jim Willie CB	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

please clarify internal Pakistani sentiment last exchange you mentioned almost a zero chance of internal situation erupting into a civil war that was good to hear but something rubs the wrong way against such warm fuzzies I continue to hear things like 80-85% of Paki citizens are pro-Taliban, that many Afghans living in Pakistan are Pashtun and sympthetic toward Talibans, that Saudi funds the maddrassas where cultlike anti-US is bred (not to mention religious sanctioned murder) how can so many citizens oppose what is going on in Afghany, yet the situation not worsen, and even erupt? thanks for the detailed explanations / jim