By Syed M.Aslam
April 29 - May 05, 2002
*** "LET IT BE KNOWN THAT I AM A TERRORIST."
(Saudi Arabian columnist Saleh Al-Ashqar's
sarcastic rebuttal to media-fuelled anti-Palestinians sentiments in
the West stereotyping them as terrorists 'for resisting the occupier
and defending their own existence')
*** "SUDDENLY THE
PRESIDENT who soared by standing on principle seems to have been
replaced by an impostor who's has lost his foreign-policy
bearings."
(Editorial in influential US publication, Wall
Street Journal, criticizing slow progress of Washington-backed interim
government of Hamid Karzai's to expand his sphere of influence beyond
the confined of the capital Kabul)
*** "THE US ALWAYS needs external wars,
because it is the only thing that unites them. Every US President
invents an external enemy, and Bush is no exception."
(Kuwaiti academic and head of London-based think
tank Ibn-Rushd Centre, Abdullah Al-Nafisi, saying the US war in
Afghanistan is being motivated by economics making it more likely that
it will launch more wars in its aftermath)
*** "IF HE WERE a
company chairman, he would leave his company's annual general meeting
in handcuffs... believes he's a god of Olympia and doesn't want to
debate with a mere mortal."
(Extreme right French leader Jean-Marie Le Pen
accusing President Jacques Chirac of corruption and challenging him
for a TV showdown as protests snowballed across the country at his
shock surge into the runoff of the presidential election)
*** "NO PLANE EVER CRASHED INTO THE
PENTAGON... we know nothing about what really happened that day, for
we've never really been told the truth about what really occurred on
September 11."
(Writer of runaway best seller in France 'The
Horrible Lie', Thierry Meyssan, claiming that the kamikaze attack on
Pentagon was simply a medium event)
*** "IT'S AMAZING.
The Americans will accept wrong reports and bomb our people. But they
don't allow us to come in and tell them the truth."
(A member of council of Afghan province of Khost
who travelled to capital Kabul to present the case of US bombing
errors which killed innocent tribal elders)
*** "HOW CAN you justify selling something
that costs $200 for $10,000?"
(Yusuf K. Hamied, the controller of the third top
pharmaceutical company in India, saying that no companies should be
allowed to charge outrageous prices for life-saving drugs. He
proceeded to destroy one of the most outrageous of them of all by
offering to sell anti-AIDS drugs at a fraction of the going price)
*** "IN MEXICO
EVERYONE from the right to left lies... Diplomatic relations may break
off for telling the truth but the brotherly and historical links
between the Mexican and Cuban peoples will be eternal."
(Cuban President Fidel Castro blasting Mexican
President Vicente Fox for orchestrating his departure from the UN
development summit in Mexico to keep him away from running into US
President George W. Bush)
*** "ON EARTH DAY, President Bush will
probably plant a tree... It's the other 364 days we're worried
about."
(Natural Resources Defence Council, a US
environmentalist group, criticizing government's energy and
environmental policies)
*** "I HAVE
UNSHEATHED (my sword). What I am asking the nation is that you don't
make me unsheathe it again."
(Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who was restored
after a coup, advocating national dialogue to avoid renewed violence)
*** "THE MAJORITY of Afghans neither know him
nor do they want a museum piece to revive the defunct monarchy... the
country certainly does not need a fossil to be displayed as the
foreigners please in order to keep the Afghans in perpetual
bondage."
(Iran's English language daily 'Kayhan' commenting
on the return of former Afghan king Muhammad Zahir Shah after 23 years
in exile)
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