By Syed M.Aslam
Feb-18
24, 2002
*** "THE TIME FOR BULLYING IS OVER."
(Iranian President Mohammad Khatami leading a
protest rally against the US)
*** "TO THOSE WHO SAY Afghanistan needs
deeds not words, I say that there are words that carry the weight of
deeds, texts that are also acts."
(French intellectual Bernard Henri-Levy, on being
appointed by the President Jacques Chirac as philosopher to war-torn
Afghanistan to explain "the expectations and needs of the Afghan
people" to his government)
*** "WHAT HAPPENED was a scandal by all
measures for it is shameful for any country that its government be
formed outside its borders ... We were tricked by U.N.
representatives."
(Former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani
calling Bonn accord was an scandalous trick by the United Nations)
*** "GULLIVER CAN'T do it alone, and I
don't think it's helpful if we regard ourselves as so Lilliputian that
we can't speak up and say it."
(EU commissioner in charge of Europe's
international relations, Chris Patten, launching a scathing attack of
US foreign policy accusing the Bush administration of a dangerously
"absolutist and simplistic")
*** "NOT ONLY are electrical activities
affected, but also biochemical processes ... we do know that
childrenís brains, which are not fully developed, are more vulnerable
than adult brains are."
(Finding of the test conducted in Spain showing
that even a few minutes' of chatting on a mobile phone reduces the
brain functions of children for almost an hour)
*** "UNDER THE BANNER of anti-terrorism,
the United States can wantonly attack those who hold different views
... under the same banner, it can make the United Nations a mere
figurehead and transform the anti-terror campaign into a bargaining
chip in international relations."
(Zhang Guoqing, a researcher at the American
Institute, Academy of Social Sciences, China, saying that a common
ground for US-China ties remain elusive)
*** "THE US RESERVES the right to itself
to wage war, and dumps on others the messy, expensive business of
nation-building and peace keeping."
(Former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt
commenting on the US campaign in Afghanistan)
*** "NICE PEOPLE vanish in memory, nasty
people remain."
(Indian journalist Khushwant Singh speaking at the
launching ceremony of his autobiography "Truth, Love and a Little
Malice")
*** "I'VE ALSO THOUGHT of doing the same
thing ... You only need to find out beforehand which storey the people
are on."
(Alleged remarks uttered by a pilot during the
television footage of a plane crashing into the WTC. The unnamed pilot
had been sacked for his "me too" remark by a German business
airline Hapag Lloyd Executive)
*** "... has not ruled anything
out."
(White House spokesman Ari Fleischer telling
reporters about President George W. Bush's reaction to Russia's plea
to avoid taking military action against "axis of evil" —
Iraq, Iran and Korea)
*** "WHO WINS, who loses, it doesn't
affect my life. You give me more money, I will hold your party
flag."
(A rickshaw-puller expressing willingness to change
his loyalty in the elections in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh)
*** "SO THE DIRECTORS who influence me
the most, I don't know their names."
(Famed US film director Robert Altman saying that
he has been influenced most by bad movies which had taught him most of
what he knows about cinema to not to repeat their mistakes)
*** "WHO CAN LABEL PALESTINIANS as
"terrorists" so long they resist the robbing of their land
in violation of each and every UN Security Council resolution?"
(Former NATO official Dr Murad Hoffman blasting the
US policy towards Arabs in particular and Muslims in general)
*** "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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