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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (44479)	8/28/2003 2:24:21 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

The Dark Art of Interrogation by Mark Bowden The most effective way to gather intelligence and thwart terrorism—the interrogation of captured suspects—can also be a direct route into morally repugnant terrain. What is America up to? A survey of the landscape of persuasion. By Mark Bowden, an Atlantic national correspondent and the best-selling author of Black Hawk Down and Killing Pablo. Pharaohs-in-Waiting by Mary Anne Weaver Who will succeed Egypt's Hosni Mubarak as the ruler of the world's most populous and important country? The contenders, our correspondent reports, include Mubarak's son and his spymaster. theatlantic.com

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (44479)	9/4/2003 2:08:54 AM
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The Falseness of Anti-Americanism Idea thoughts on Mr. Lynch, the author of 'Taking Arabs Seriously'-Thursday, Aug 28, 2003.... Sub- < "the bottom has fallen out of Arab and Muslim support for the United States."> <<When was the last time US enjoyed any Arab or Muslim support? Your article is written on totally wrong premises and fairytale assumptions! Was it when Khomieni took the diplomats as hostages in late seventies and called US the great Satan or when millions of Muslims were saved from total annihilation in Bosnia and Kosovo! Help of US in humanitarian causes to help Muslims has never been appreciated or acknowledged, Ladenism is Sunni extremist manifestation of Shiite revolution unveiled by intolerant forces of medievalism, the theme within the Islamic world is and has been ‘murg bey americka’ the central plank of the article is totally misplaced if read in context of contemporary history, appeasement and looking in other direction caused 911. Usama bin Laden, leader of the terrorist organization Al-Qaida, was charged in connection with the August 7, 1998, bombings of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. >> Message 19254073 Fouad Ajami in Foreign Policy today…… The Falseness of Anti-Americanism Pollsters report rising anti-Americanism worldwide. The United States, they imply, squandered global sympathy after the September 11 terrorist attacks through its arrogant unilateralism. In truth, there was never any sympathy to squander. Anti-Americanism was already entrenched in the world's psyche—a backlash against a nation that comes bearing modernism to those who want it but who also fear and despise it. “America is everywhere," Italian novelist Ignazio Silone once observed. It is in Karachi and Paris, in Jakarta and Brussels. An idea of it, a fantasy of it, hovers over distant lands. And everywhere there is also an obligatory anti-Americanism, a cover and an apology for the spell the United States casts over distant peoples and places. In the burning grounds of the Muslim world and on its periphery, U.S. embassies and their fate in recent years bear witness to a duality of the United States as Satan and redeemer. The embassies targeted by the masters of terror and by the diehards are besieged by visa-seekers dreaming of the golden, seductive country. If only the crowd in Tehran offering itstired rhythmic chant "marg bar amrika" ("death to America") really meant it! It is of visas and green cards and houses with lawns and of the glamorous world of Los Angeles, far away from the mullahs and their cultural tyranny, that the crowd really dreams. The frenzy with which radical Islamists battle against deportation orders from U.S. soil— dreading the prospect of returning to Amman and Beirut and Cairo— reveals the lie of anti-Americanism that blows through Muslim lands.................... The Pew pollsters ignored Greece, where hatred of the United States is now a defining feature of political life. The United States offended Greece by rescuing Bosnians and Kosovars. Then, the same Greeks who hailed the Serbian conquest of Srebrenica in 1995 and the mass slaughter of the Muslims there were quick to summon up outrage over the U.S. military campaign in Iraq. In one Greek public opinion survey, Americans were ranked among Albanians, Gypsies, and Turks as the most despised peoples. ;;; The fury of the Turkish protests against the United States in the months prior to the war in Iraq exhibited a pathology all its own. It was, at times, nature imitating art: The protesters in the streets burned American flags in the apparent hope that Europeans (real Europeans, that is) would finally take Turkey and the Turks into the fold. The U.S. presence had been benign in Turkish lands, and Americans had been Turkey's staunchest advocates for coveted membership in the EU. But suddenly this relationship that served Turkey so well was no longer good enough. As the "soft" Islamists (there is no such thing, we ought to understand by now) revolted against Pax Americana, the secularists averted their gaze and let stand this new anti-Americanism. Fouad Ajami is the Majid Khadduri professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report.