By Syed M.Aslam
Feb-11 - 17, 2002
*** "IF ONE LOOKED at the official
definition of terrorism, it would be identified to the official
definition of US foreign policy."
(US intellectual and social activist Noam Chomsky
questioning his government's moral right to wage war against terrorism
when Washington itself is guilty of promoting and implementing
terrorism internationally on many occasions in the past)
*** "MUSLIM POLICE in Newark allowed to
wear beards."
(US Justice Department announcing winning the
lawsuit against the Newark city filed in May 2000 for threatening 10
Muslim officers with termination, transfer and denying them the
opportunities to work special overtime events due to refusal to shave
off their beards)
*** "THE (US PRESIEDNT) speaks like a
man thirsty for human blood ... Iran is proud to be at the receiving
end of the anger of the most-hated Satanic power of the world."
(Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
angrily rebutting US President George W. Bush's State of the Union
address calling Iran, Iraq and North Korea as 'an axis of evil')
*** "THEY TALK of liberalization when it
is we that have to liberalize and they that are protected."
(One of the speakers accusing the US of not playing
by the rules when it comes to international commerce during a protest
opposing the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas, the extension
of NAFTA, in Porto Alegre, Brazil coinciding with World Social Forum)
*** "TRUST THE CHAMPION whiners of the
world to only moan about what effects them and not utter a word about
what benefits them."
(Former Indian skipper Sunil Gavaskar slamming the
English cricket team for complaining about poor umpiring during its
six one-day series ending in a 3-3 draw)
*** "... entirely responsible to the
unilateral and self-opinionated foreign policy, political immaturity
and moral leprosy of the Bush Administration."
(North Korean foreign ministry spokesman condemning
US President George W. Bush's remark calling North Korea, Iran and
Iraq an 'axis of evil'. He said that Bush made the remark to divert
attention from the blaming September 11 attacks and collapse of the
oil giant Enron)
*** "DOES SHE WANT the Americans to run
her administration?."
(Philippine Catholic priest Robert Reyes
criticizing President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo for getting 'too
Americanised' to hire former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani as
consultant)
*** "THE CHINESE side does not advocate
using this kind of language in international relations."
(Chinese foreign ministry spokesman criticizing US
President George W. Bush's comment calling North Korea, Iran and Iraq
an 'axis of evil')
*** "WE ARE THREATENED today by a new
simplism which consists in reducing everything to a war on terrorism.
We cannot accept that idea. You have got to tackle the root causes,
the situations, poverty, injustice."
(French Foreign Minister Hubert Verdine strongly
criticizing the US support for Israel saying that Europeans were
'unanimous in not supporting the Middle East policy of the White
House')
*** "IT'S NICE TO HEAR YOUR VOICE."
(Former US President Bill Clinton's taped call to
former Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic now facing trial for
killings thousands of unarmed Muslims. The transcripts of the call was
made by Clinton from presidential jet Air Force One in January 1996
was leaked to the media and was published by a Croatian weekly)
*** "IT IS IMPERATIVE for Arab states to
have a deterrent power to face the existing gap in the military
balance with Israel ... Arab states possess a sufficient missile
power, both conventional and unconventional ... which constitute a
confirmed deterrent that will force Israel not to carry out what it
means."
(Prominent Arab military analyst Dr Zakaria Hussein
stressing the need for joint Arab action to face the growing Israeli
militarism)
*** "THE COMMANDERS have become fairly
adept at selling themselves, and they always need money for
guns."
(A senior Western diplomat based in Pakistan
commenting on report published in Washington Times saying that the US
paid dozens of Afghan war lords $ 200,000 each plus mobiles to secure
their cooperation in its war against the Taliban)
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