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Abdallah Schleifer, director of the Adham Center for television journalism at the American University in Cairo, credits bin Laden's canny, opportunistic broadening of his message. Instead of emphasizing his desire for a medieval-style caliphate under Islamic law--which discomfits many moderate Arabs--bin Laden crooned a greatest-hits medley of deeply ingrained Arab grievances--the death of thousands of Iraqi children under U.N. sanctions; U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, home of Muslim holy cities; the partition of Arab lands by Europe after World War I; and that ultimate red-meat issue, Israel. "The original bin Laden motif...
Some experts suggest it's because the U.S. does not have a message palatable to the Muslim world. The U.S. may have an interest, as the State Department's Beers says, in emphasizing its "freedom and tolerance" to the Arab masses. But in building its coalition, the U.S. is also courting military and strategic support from undemocratic and often intolerant regimes. Says Columbia's Bulliet: "We do not have a message that serves both our military-strategic interests in the short run and our national people-to-people interests in the long...
...fund could win some hearts. As for minds, British Prime Minister Tony Blair last week most prominently jumped into the media fray, speaking with al-Jazeera the day after bin Laden's tape aired and sending an op-ed article to Arab newspapers that made the case against bin Laden in Islamic terms: "As the Prophet Muhammad (God's peace and blessings be upon him) said to his armies: 'Do not kill women or children or non-combatants...
Wolfowitz has asked former CIA director R. James Woolsey to look for that evidence. If he finds it, one scenario has the U.S. going to allied Arab governments and presenting them with a clear operational plan for taking out Saddam. "They would basically be asked to salute," says a U.S. official. "What the U.S. would have to guarantee is that it be over quick and that it would work...
...Forbes list of the world's richest people and has some $16 billion invested in such American companies as Citigroup ($9.65 billion), News Corp. ($1.1 billion), Apple ($314 million) and TIME's parent company, AOL Time Warner ($932 million), is known as one of the most ardent Arab supporters of the U.S. "It is my personal duty," he said before leaving Saudi Arabia for a trip to New York City, "to show my alliance and show the real face of the Arab, Islam and Saudi Arabia." And so, during a tour of ground zero, he presented New York City Mayor...