Word: anti-american
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...after community leaders agreed to end violence between Christian and Muslim gangs. Police said 32 people died in recent clashes that drove thousands of people from their homes. Red Cross estimates put the toll far higher. President Olusegun Obasanjo toured the northern city after the riots, which began as anti-American protests...
...Tension is high in Peshawar as bombing raids inside Afghanistan continue. Anti-American sentiment permeates the streets and alleys. My barber whispered to me that he would prefer to come by my office to cut my hair during these next few months, or at least until things calm down a bit more. He did not want me to risk walking down the alley to his barbershop. I agreed, and expressed my concern for him and his family...
...Problems in Pakistan: Pakistan, which serves as a key staging ground for U.S. special forces, has so far contained anti-American sentiment, but General Musharraf's regime may be feeling the heat. A helicopter ferrying U.S. Special Forces reportedly came under ground fire from within Pakistan last weekend. And Friday's Muslim prayers saw the biggest anti-American demonstrations yet on the streets of Karachi. Fearing a mounting backlash, Musharraf wants the bombing to end by Ramadan. After all, right now he faces large demonstrations once a week after Friday prayers, but during Ramadan many more Muslims go to mosque...
...same demand has been echoed at the opposite end of the region's political spectrum, by the Northern Alliance. And there is little doubt that if bombs are falling on Afghanistan during the Muslim holy month that begins on November 17, there will be a sharp uptick in anti-American anger around the Muslim world...
...from hijacker Mohamed Atta, born to a middle-class Egyptian family and radicalized by ideas imbibed at German universities—or from the host of Muslim clerics, of imams and mullahs, across the Middle East and Asia, who have fallen over themselves to provide religious justifications for an anti-American jihad. This is not a new phenomenon: revolutionary movements have always found their leaders among discontented middle and upper class types. Think of Danton and Robespierre; think of Lenin...