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To: LindyBill who wrote (32964)	6/24/2002 7:24:42 AM
From: kumar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The same could be said of countries like Pakistan. But They are US Allies (albiet recent allies). cheers, kumar Through the lens of counterterrorism, Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority and the governments of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan have the same problematic profile. They are all undemocratic regimes that preside over large populations of frustrated young people who are deprived of both economic opportunity and political rights. Their leaders seek to deflect what would otherwise be a tide of domestic unrest by encouraging their media and mosques to whip up hatred of Israel, the United States and Western values, while suppressing any hint of secular or democratic opposition. Then all -- Arafat, Hosni Mubarak, Saudi Prince Abdullah -- turn to the United States to argue that only they can control the terrorists they have created and that the extremism they foster is the only political alternative to their dictatorships.