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[FC - Eventually, you get some articles that tell what it's really all
about. This seems to me to be one of the ones that starts to get at the
issue. In essence, the recent rhetoric from the middle east has said -
repeatedly - from many quarters - that while we don't want you (the US)
to bomb us, we will bomb you - as a group - making it hard to pin down
and not really supporting your efforts to stop it - until you give the
Palestinans Jerusalem and eliminate the Israel as a state. (This last
part is always cloaked in one way or another, but the PA has refused
everything short of it again and again and the Arab league has always
ultimately supported them in this issue.) Bush has (just yesterday)
supported this in a subtle way by taking a step in the 'recognize the
Palestinan state' direction. His rhetoric at home is hard line but his
diplomacy is baseically to forgive debts in the billions to anyone who
appears to support US efforts, yield to the PA demands one at a time
over time, and send a hundred billion or so, mostly to big businesses,
to 'stimulate the ecomony' - the trickly down effect if you recall.]
Muslim nations say Mideast crisis spurs terrorism
By Evelyn Leopold
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 2, (Reuters) *****
- Several Middle East nations said on
Tuesday that global terrorism would never be solved before the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict was settled, with Libya and Iran accusing
Israel of "state terrorism."
Palestinian envoy Nasser al-Kidwa, however, gave a relatively
conciliatory address to the U.N. General Assembly, during its week-long
debate on counter-terrorism in response to the Sept. 11 attacks against
the United States.
"We must solve the issue of Palestine in a just way, thus ending the
source of huge anger and despair in the region," he said, adding that
settling the conflict in itself would not end terrorism but was a
"necessary condition" towards that goal.
"We have to look into the negative positions and feelings of millions of
Arabs and Muslims towards the United States and some other Western
nations," which provided a breeding ground for extremist groups,
al-Kidwa said.
Al-Kidwa made no reference to Tuesday's White House statement endorsing
the idea of a Palestinian state. Condemning the "diabolic" Sept. 11
attacks, he urged Washington to rethink policies that caused "anger and
despair" in the Middle East.
All delegates expressed condolences and condemnation of the attacks in
New York and Washington. "The terrorists did not strike at the World
Trade Center. They struck at the world," Pakistan's U.N. Ambassador
Shamshad Ahmad said.
Iran's deputy foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, told the assembly
that "the credibility of the campaign against terrorism is seriously
undermined when policies and practices designed to instill terror and
fear among the entire Palestinian people receive acquiescing silence."
At the same time he said "resistance to foreign occupation and state
terrorism is conveniently demonized.
Libya's U.N. Ambassador Abuzed Omar Dorda spoke for more than an hour,
saying that not only Israel but the United States practiced terrorism
when it bombed his country in April 1996.
"The most brutal terrorist occupation is that which is practiced against
the Palestinian people," he said.
Dorda also said Libya was first to point out the dangers of Osama bin
Laden, now suspected by Washington as the mastermind behind the attacks
on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington.
"Who cooperated with us then? Nobody," Dorda said.
And he said Britain suppressed evidence that would cleared two alleged
Libyan intelligence agents, convicted of the mid-air 1988 bombing over
Lockerbie, Scotland, in which 270 people, mostly Americans, were killed.
"They know perfectly know that they were as innocent of this crime as
the wolf was innocent of Joseph's blood," Dorda said.
Several fault lines appeared to emerge in the debate -- whether the
United States was authorized to use force by the United Nations and the
definition of what a "terrorist" is.
Both the General Assembly and the 15-member Security Council moved
quickly after the attacks to condemn them in separate resolutions. The
council then adopted late on Friday a sweeping resolution that mandates
all U.N. member governments to freeze the finances and control the
movements of anyone involved in terrorist acts.
The council's resolutions nearly but do not directly authorize military
strikes as members did in 1990 to drive Iraqi troops out of Kuwait and
interpretations differ.
For Ireland's Foreign Minister Brian Cowen, as with other Western
nations, however, this was no longer a question.
"Who reasonably argue that the US does not have the right to defend
itself, in a targeted and proportionate manner, by bringing to justice
those who planned, perpetrated and assisted in these outrages and who
continue to threaten international peace and security?" he said.
The United Nations also has a dozen treaties on terrorism with an
India-sponsored comprehensive convention currently under discussion.
But one obstacle has been the definition of terrorism, with fears that
anyone opposing an oppressive government could be branded a terrorist.
Iran's Zarif said there needed to be "objective criteria, which would
enable the international community, to identify and combat terrorism
regardless of its victims or culprits."
"It is not acceptable that patterns of alliance rather than actual
engagement in terrorist activities would become the determining factor."
Zarif said."
19:34 10-02-01
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