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...prospect of a protracted campaign has made more urgent the waging of the propaganda war in the Arab and Muslim world, and the U.S. last weekend unveiled a new secret weapon - former ambassador to Syria Christopher Ross. Within two hours of Osama bin Laden's latest propaganda tape broadcast on the pan-Arab cable network al-Jezeera, viewers heard a rebuttal from Mr. Ross delivered in fluent Arabic. And with it, the message that Washington plans to challenge Bin Laden in real time for the hearts and minds of the Arab world. The U.S. might have been helped in this...
Washington may not be able to find Osama bin Laden on the ground in Afghanistan, but it was able, last weekend, to ambush him on the airwaves. Soon after Qatar's al-Jezeera TV broadcast the latest propaganda tirade from the Saudi terrorist on Saturday, the channel's pan-Arab audience was treated to a surprise live American rebuttal - delivered, like bin Laden's own rant, in fluent Arabic. The U.S. had introduced a new "secret weapon" to the propaganda war: Christopher Ross, former U.S. ambassador to Syria and State Department counter-terrorism coordinator, brought out of mothballs...
...helped, no doubt, by the fact that bin Laden had lashed out intemperately at moderate Arab regimes and at the United Nations. Calling Kofi Annan a "criminal," to take just one example, sounds deranged, even to anti-Western firebrands in the developing world. The terrorist, whose propaganda broadcast when the U.S. bombing began had been a home-run in the Arab world, now sounded almost incoherent, teeing himself up for Ross to calmly point out bin Laden's political isolation. Even the Taliban seemed at odds with his message, appealing to the U.N. for humanitarian help two days after their...
...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...
Woodruff, who has been in broadcast journalism since joining an Atlanta CBS affiliate in 1970, primarily covers national politics...