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To: sea_urchin who wrote (145)	4/9/2005 6:43:41 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 418

As if one NUCLEAR tsunami was not enough.... Southeast Asia Apr 9, 2005 Pirates mock Malacca Strait security By Ioannis Gatsiounis [...] The same could not be said last April, when US Admiral Thomas Fargo announced that the United States was considering deploying special forces on high-speed vessels along the Malacca Strait to compensate for some of the littoral states' seeming nonchalance toward safeguarding against a terrorist incident. The Malaysian government vociferously rejected the offer. In light of the recent attacks, a Western diplomat treaded carefully on the question of whether the US government would make a stronger push to assist in strait security. "Ideally [the littoral states] will begin to cooperate more closely with each other," said the diplomat, who claimed the surge in attacks was not necessarily cause to sound alarm bells: "Pirate attacks are kind of cyclical in nature." But clearly the international community is watching the developments in the strait very closely, if only from a different angle than the littoral states. atimes.com

To: sea_urchin who wrote (145)	4/20/2005 5:58:12 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 418

In Many Turks' Eyes, U.S. Remains the Enemy Hostility Bodes Ill For Efforts to Boost Americans' Image By Karl Vick Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, April 10, 2005 ISTANBUL, April 9 -- In Turkey, heralded as the model of a Westward-looking Muslim democracy, sales records were shattered this spring by a book that imagines a U.S. invasion of this nation, a longtime U.S. ally. Polls show an overwhelming majority of Turks regard that scenario as a real possibility. Mainstream newspapers here routinely mock U.S. troops in Iraq, and many feature breathless but unsubstantiated reports of American atrocities there, including mythical accounts of troops harvesting organs from dead civilians. One paper announced the U.S. offensive against Fallujah in November with a photo illustration of President Bush wearing a swastika. Conspiracy theories, a staple topic at teahouses and water coolers, are now taken so seriously that in December the U.S. Embassy felt compelled to issue a statement denying that the United States had caused the tsunami in South Asia and, with it, the deaths of more than 200,000 people. [...] washingtonpost.com