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...irony at work here, of course: Al Qaeda regard Arafat as an apostate, and Al Zawahiri would sooner amputate his own hand rather than shake that of the Palestinian leader. No matter, this is a propaganda war and Bin Laden's men are determined to paint themselves as universal spokesmen for widely held Arab grievances...
...Laden and his spokesmen have lately taken to making the Palestinian issue their primary talking point. And despite his reluctance to see the issues as linked, President Bush was forced to acknowledge the importance of Middle East peace in a speech devoted to the war on terrorism...
...Washington's public relations effort may be too little too late. "In Europe, support for the war is slipping," the magazine writes. "In the Middle East, opposition appears to be mounting." It warns that despite new and creative propaganda efforts by Washington, success depends on enlisting Arab and Muslim spokesmen to dress down bin Laden...
...bearded men in artfully folded turbans came from the same moderate, nationalist, royalist ranks. It is unlikely that many chieftains from inside Afghanistan braved Taliban wrath to come. Nowhere sat a member of the Northern Alliance. Nor did a single so-called moderate Taliban attend. From Kabul, Taliban spokesmen jeered that the gathering was a bunch of self-seekers out to pocket American dollars. Even Zahir Shah, who stood to benefit most, inexplicably failed to send a personal representative. And the maneuvering in Peshawar ignores a harsh reality. When you ask four Afghan refugees who should rule their country...
...sect?which calls itself "the con-gregation"?operates deep underground. A two-year police campaign against it and other so-called "evil cults," such as Falun Gong, has put 2,000 of its followers in jail, say its spokesmen. Yet by targeting Christian believers it is flourishing?even though its belief that the female Jesus has updated the Bible for China violates core Christian tenets. The appeal seems to be the group's claim to have improved the Christian faith by putting the end of the world into a Chinese context and offering believers a path to immediate salvation. Official...