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...should be especially concerned with the current unrest in Pakistan, a Muslim nation with a small but fearsome fundamentalist minority. Thousands of citizens have recently taken to the streets to protest the pending military action in Afghanistan, demanding that Pakistan cease its cooperation with the U.S. It will obviously be very difficult to assure the safety and security of any American or Western personnel deployed in Pakistan, a fact highlighted by a Sept. 25 statement attributed to Osama bin Laden: “We tell our Muslim brothers in Pakistan to use all their means to resist the invasion...
...must be prepared to take defensive actions in the event of terrorist or guerrilla attacks against American positions. The U.S. is not deploying forces to secure or welcoming environments, as it did in the war against Iraq 10 years ago. It is true that there was some local unrest at the appearance of American soldiers in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War, but many were convinced that the American military presence was needed to defend them from the imminent threat posed by Iraq. In Pakistan, no such argument can be made. The Pakistani government has offered its cooperation...
Much hinges on things we can't know. For example, will there be more such assaults? Will U.S. retaliation spur broad unrest in the Muslim world and perhaps threaten oil supplies? Until these questions are resolved, investors and consumers will sit on their wallets. Meanwhile, what we do know is plainly awful. Consumer confidence, already at an eight-year low before last Tuesday, will fall further. George Mees Jr., owner of GEM Floor Sanding Service in Villa Park, Ill., had a sale fall through just hours after the attacks. "I'm sure to get cancellations," he says. "Nobody's going...
...events in the Middle East have helped politicize European Jews, the repercussions of that unrest at home have reinforced the need for increased vigilance. According to the World Jewish Congress, incidents of anti-Semitic violence in Europe have tripled since the start of this latest intifadeh and "the bulk of these have been attributed to Muslims who wish to demonstrate their solidarity with [the Palestinians]." Representatives of both French and British Jewish groups hasten to say they have no quarrel with their Muslim compatriots and both communities have forged ties with local Muslim organizations in efforts to promote understanding...
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