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...truly want to improve the lives of poor and oppressed peoples throughout the Arab and wider Muslim world, it will require more engagement from the United States, not less. But before we can begin this process, it will take a realization in this country of the value of our ideals and an explicit rejection of the moral relativism pervasive at places like Harvard...
TIME: What explains some Arab street reaction showing satisfaction with the September 11 terrorist attacks on America? Moussa: I was really sad about what happened in Manhattan, where I lived for so many years, and in Washington. I strongly condemn it. If there are some expressions [of satisfaction], those are eruptions that do not at all represent the overwhelming majority of how Arabs feel and reacted. Those people have been living in refugee camps for decades. That shows what frustration will do. The Palestinian problem has to be solved...
TIME: If the terrorists were Arabs, how would you explain what they did? Moussa: [U.S. Secretary of State] Colin Powell says that they will produce evidence. If it was Arabs or Muslims, they don't represent the Arab or Muslim people, but we have to see why. First, there is the frustration, the sense that a major injustice has been done to the Arabs. Israeli policy is challenging the dignity of the Arab man. And nobody cares. But nothing in what I say justifies the attacks. We condemn...
TIME: Will the Arab states cooperate? Moussa: We are ready to cooperate as much as we can. But [retaliation] should be done in a way that does justice. You should retaliate against a group that has been proven to be the perpetrtators. If they want our help concerning military action, military bases, soldiers or anything of the sort, then the world has to be consulted. The best thing, if there is evidence, is to get bin Laden and try him. Attacking the Afghans will harm a lot of innocent people which we want to avoid...
That good fortune arose when United Arab Emirates police detained Beghal as he transited the Dubai airport - using a fake passport - during a trip from Pakistan to France. A veteran of Afghan training camps, where he received direction from members of bin Laden?s inner circle, Beghal was sought by France as a suspected organizer of Muslim extremists in Europe - suspicions confirmed by Beghal himself. French authorities say police in Dubai apparently assign an Islamic spiritual adviser to captured terrorists to cite and discuss Koranic texts condemning murderous acts as a violation of Islam. Over time, the messages may break...