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...message was aimed at the home front, and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee reported a sharp drop in attacks against Arab Americans in the days after he spoke. But the impact overseas was even more dramatic. The White House heard instantly from its embassies in the Middle East. Ambassador Margaret Tutwiler, who left the West Wing over the summer to take up her post as U.S. envoy to Morocco, called adviser Karen Hughes from Rabat. "Keep it up," said Tutwiler, whose ear for the right political move is unrivaled. "It's getting incredible coverage." When King Abdullah of Jordan...
...that's never happened to me before in Pakistan. I avoided four scowling Taliban clerics, bearded and black turbaned, who were a few rows ahead of me on the flight. The Taliban think the Pakistanis are wimps and bad Muslims for giving in to the Americans. The Afghan ambassador was greeted recently by a Pakistani army brigadier who shrugged apologetically. "I know," the ambassador said witheringly. Your heart bleeds for us, but your lips are sewn shut...
...that's never happened to me before in Pakistan. I avoided four scowling Taliban clerics, bearded and black turbaned, who were a few rows ahead of me on the flight. The Taliban think the Pakistanis are wimps and bad Muslims for giving in to the Americans. The Afghan ambassador was greeted recently by a Pakistani army brigadier who shrugged apologetically. "I know," the ambassador said witheringly. Your heart bleeds for us, but your lips are sewn shut...
...same time, the U.S. informed the U.N. Security Council that its pursuit of terror networks might take American forces into countries other than Afghanistan. A letter from U.S. Ambassador to the UN, John Negroponte, to the Security Council states: "We may find that our self-defense requires further actions with respect to other organizations and other states...
...Saudi Arabia-based Islamic World League declared that 'the communist aggression aims at eliminating the Muslim presence in Afghanistan'... Even Iran's fanatical leaders denounced the Soviet invasion. During an audience with Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, Soviet Ambassador to Iran Vladimir Vinogradov tried to explain that his country had moved in Afghanistan against cia and Zionist agents, two specters that Khomeini himself routinely invokes to justify his own actions. But the Soviet apparently got nowhere. A member of Iran's clerical establishment later said that the Ayatullah sharply told the convoy that 'Brezhnev was stepping into the Shah's shoes...