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News consumers in Arab and Muslim nations, however, got an earful about it. In newspapers and on TV in many predominantly Islamic nations, Rumsfeld's "declining" of surrenders was seen as a barbaric order to kill anyone with a white flag. Al-Hayat, a Saudi-owned paper read by Muslims around the globe, said Rumsfeld uttered the words with a "coldness that makes the hearts of legal experts shiver." Pundits on al-Jazeera, the 24-hr. views-and-news channel based in Qatar, asserted that Northern Alliance troops were mostly shooting those from Arab nations who had gone to help...
...Many Arab newsmen agree. They say the bitterness that the U.S. has sown with its policy toward Israel has intensified because of the civilian casualties in Afghanistan. Two weeks ago, Yasser Abu Hilalah charged in the Jordanian daily al-Rai that the Americans are ignoring war crimes committed by the Northern Alliance. "The U.S. has lost the propaganda war," Abu Hilalah concluded...
...since the Taliban's virtual defeat, many Arab and Muslim media outlets have had to re-evaluate at least some of their negative coverage of the U.S. The quickest change has appeared in stories about the military: Arab and Muslim journalists can no longer claim that the U.S. lacks the strength and resolve to beat the Taliban. Historical parallels to the failed British and Russian campaigns in Afghanistan have vanished. Anti-U.S. rhetoric has particularly dulled in Pakistan, where a columnist for the Karachi News International wrote last week that "the unraveling of the self-styled Islamic State [Afghanistan...
...strikes. American special-ops forces joined the anti-Taliban forces commanded by Karzai and Ghul Agha Sherzai, and the merged units closed in on the city from the east and north. Sherzai's 700 men advanced as far as the Kandahar airport before encountering fire from Taliban and foreign Arab fighters making their last stand. During bombing lulls, Taliban soldiers hauled their dead comrades out of the trenches before ushering in new fighters. Those trying to run away were shot in the legs by their commanders...
Last year, the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS) and the Society of Arab Students (SAS) organized a dinner to raise relief funds for Palestinians. The student organizations had considered donating a portion of the proceeds to HLF, the largest Muslim charity in the U.S.—an organization now accused of financing Hamas. A Palestinian militant group, Hamas claimed responsibility for three suicide bombings in Israel last weekend that killed 25 people...