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Many Muslims in Britain, however, are loudly anti-American and highly critical of the bombing in Afghanistan. Al-Muhajiroun is capitalizing on this anger. The group had been saying for weeks that Britons were flocking to the bin Laden cause, much as Jewish youths went to Tel Aviv in 1967 to fight in the Arab-Israeli war. In Lahore, Pakistan, last week a spokesman--British university graduate Abu Ibrahim--put the numbers at between 600 and 700. British authorities, however, speculated that volunteers probably amounted to a few dozen. Conservative peer Norman Tebbit suggested that it would be treason...
...relief worker in Pakistan, your days are filled with everything from caring for the hungry to braving anti-American slurs. Sigurd Hanson, director of the International Rescue Committee's refugee-aid operations in Pakistan and Afghanistan, is keeping a diary of his daily life. Read it at time.com/hanson--and if you want to help out, go to the IRC's website at www.intrescom.org...
...appears to have accepted that bombing won't be halted for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Pakistan remains a dangerous prospect for U.S. military operations. Local authorities have warned the U.S. to keep a low profile in military operations from their territory. While Musharraf has thus far contained anti-American protests from Islamic radicals, Ramadan is likely to see an uptick in anger as far more Muslims visit mosques on a daily rather than weekly basis...
...view, and announced that the President would make his case for a continued war in Afghanistan in a nationally televised address Thursday. But Ross's fluency in Arabic is a tremendous asset in making the case to middle-class Muslims and countering bin Laden's adept exploitation of anti-American grievances in the Muslim world...
...Ross's apid-fire real-time Arabic response - he was interviewed live within two hours of Bin Laden's broadcast - certainly gives bin Laden and the Taliban a run for their PR money. But Ross has his work cut out for him, because deep-seated anti-American feeling on the Arab streets nurtured by perceptions of U.S. culpability in the plight of the Iraqis and Palestinians has seeded the propaganda playing field in bin Laden's favor. It will take a Herculean spin effort to convince al-Jazeera viewers that Osama bin Laden is the reason for the suffering...