39 - September 24, 2001 thru 30 September,
2001, Vol XI
Main Headlines:
•America Looks for Regional Cover for Undeclared
Operations
•Precautionary Closure of Al-Imman University
•YSP Condemns Terrorism, Calls for Confuting
Hatred, Fomenting Against Arabs & Muslims
•U.S. Events Hit Tourism in Yemen
•War on Terrorism Imminent
•UN Security Council Calls on Taliban Handover
Bin Laden Immediately
•Yemen, Syria Confirm Refusal of Linking Terrorism
to Islam and Arabs
•U.S. Defense Secretary Hints Involvement of
more than One country in Bloody Tuesday Events
•Bush Declares it Crusade War, Zionist Movement
Prime Beneficiary
•America Seeks Yemen's Cooperation in Disclosing
Secrets of Tuesday's Attacks
•RAY Party Condemns Attacks on WTC, Pentagon
•4000 Jewish Employees at WTC Stayed Away on
Tuesday's Events
•Foreign Minister: Yemen to Offer all Information
it Has.
Ath-Thawri weekly, organ of the YSP 20 September 2001
The newspaper's editorial comments on Tuesday's attacks in New York
and Washington and says that confronting currents of violence has to overstep
the states of passionate commotion and vengeance tendency to a degree providing
decision-makers with an opportunity to see the scene from different angles
and dimensions. This would force Washington and the industrialized world
to study the environment incubating terrorism and define its roots and
to come forward with a comprehensive economic, developmental and political
project to help those peoples come out from their crisis and solve their
compound problems. Such problems are represented in ways of strengthening
the economy, putting an end to plundering of wealths, improvement of income
level, elimination of unemployment and putting pressure for reformation
of political systems' infrastructures and broadening of the social base
of rule. Betting on the use of force, in its absolute concept, in its ability
to achieve political goals as aimed at by Washington is something skeptical.
These suspicions would be futile when the war is waged on obscure organizations
the American intelligence apparatuses, and those allied with it, have but
little information about.
The editorial further mentions that if America has defined its target
in Afghanistan, it has no doubt invoked by now its previous unsuccessful
experiments in more than one region of international conflicts. This would
dictate on U.S. military policy decision-makers a state of unhurried lesson
and not to be involved in a war of numerous victims with less benefits
and objectives particularly that Washington fully realizes that it is fighting
ghosts and that its interests would preferable targets. If the U.S. does
not change its foreign policy and has a parallel and just vision towards
what is going on in the region and the world, the situation would lead
not only to threaten the American interests but rather provoke the Arab
regimes themselves.
Al-Ayyam weekly, 19 September 2001
Ahmed Omar bin Freed has written an article saying that the huge debris
of thousands of tons resulted from attacking the WTC in New York on September
11 aroused a host of questions the U.S. Administration has to give answers
to. It has to sincerely, realistically and with a sense of responsibility
answer the question '' why did that happen?'' , not how.
Personally I think such an answer is the main key to finding ways of
drying up the sources of terrorism and suicide attacks. Bush administration
has to be realistic with itself and recognize that the American unjust
policy and rather biased in dealing with the Middle East issue is the only
major cause that of Tuesdays explosions and it has itself indirectly killed
thousands of people.
The author concludes that the first and most effective and reasonable
act to be adopted in the process of combating terrorism is to remove injustice
suffered by peoples especially of the Middle East region. It should be
the strategy required from America to adopt in the coming stage.
Al-Wahda weekly, 19 September 2001
Columnist Hamoud Mansar says in an article that it seems that
the call for establishment of an international alliance for combating terrorism
needs American reconsideration and realization of certain European and
Russian and Chinese conditions. There must also be some Arab and Islamic
conditions, the most important of which is correcting the American idea
of terrorism and differentiation between it and that of resisting occupation
and not to attach terrorism to Arabs and Islam.
Arab and Muslim decision-makers have to comprehend that the changeable
and challenges dictate on them to stand courageously with themselves and
their peoples to stave dangers off. They should tell America '' we are
with you in the battle against terrorism, but first let's agree on the
concept of terrorism. If it is going to be a crusade war, as Bush has termed
it, there would be no chance of alliance.
As-Sahwa weekly 20 September 2001
The newspaper's editorial says that the American focusing on the use
of force and naming the enemies beforehand may push the world forget its
agonies and think about pains of those to be America's victims.
The editorial maintains that certain points should be remembered:
- the U.S. voicing if accusation before
removing debris is repeating what happened following the attack of Oklahoma
in 1995 when the U.S. implemented strikes against Afghanistan and the Sudan,
terrorizing their Muslim and Arab population and now it is leveling the
same charges at the Arabs and Muslims and without clear evidence.
_passengers of attacking planes were from all nationalities and religions
but the focus is attaching accusations is on Arabs and Muslims,
-the recent events have disclosed level
of the Jewish role in making the American decision and steering media towards
defaming the image of Islam and attracting sympathy towards the Zionist
entity,
- during previous experiences there appeared
some reasonable voices in Europe warning America against hasty reactions
because that would lead to continuation of violence,
- tackling issues of terrorism would be
through considering the causes and America's reconsideration of its internal
and external policies, the most outstanding of which is its complete partiality
with Israel,
-the issue of terrorism has become an international
one not confined to certain country, race or religion and America has to
consult the world in taking the decision towards it and there should be
a definition of concepts of terrorism, differentiating it from the legitimate
right to defending the land and dignity,
- killing the innocent is not approved
by legislations and religions and thus America must remember the children
of Iraq, Libya and Sudan and not to get involved in again punishing the
innocent.
Al-Jamaheer weekly, organ of the Arab Baath Socialist party, Syria
organization, 16 September 2001
The newspaper's chief editor writes saying that we are not with terrorism
neither with rendering civilians into military targets because that contradicts
our beliefs and principles.
What happened in America is a natural outcome of the rule that terrorism
breeds but terrorism. America's practices all over the world have clearly
depicted a number of inhumane stands characterized by a hostile tendency
towards peoples especially the stand towards the Palestinian cause and
siding with the Zionist entity, terrorism against the people of Iraq, Sudan
and Libya, in addition to other peoples of the world. America's endeavor
to invest globalization under the international imbalance to impoverish
countries and control their economies has created many human accumulations
and various reactions reflected by a number of acts targeting American
interests. These reactions cannot be confined to a certain area or religion
or a certain group because they entertain the characteristic of comprehensiveness
and civilization conflict aimed at effecting balance in the world.
Al-Wahdawi weekly, 18 September 2001
Columnist Ali Al-Saqqaf has said that attacks
on the WTC in New York city and the Pentagon in Washington are still like
a puzzle difficult to solve. If astonishment resulting from the shock has
subsided a little there should be a re-arrangement of questions. The question
of who has been behind the attacks must be in the second place to open
way for the question about the reason why they have been carried out. Whoever
the perpetrator or the side that is behind the events and whatever the
degree of our condemnation, there is certainly a motive behind them.
Whether it was the act of American rightist organizations, or the MOSAD
or by Osama bin Laden, America has to study carefully the motive in order
to avoid any similar catastrophe in future. America's interest and that
of humanity necessitates that America should reconsider its calculations
as a precautionary measure.
Al-Mithaq weekly , organ of General People's Congress party 17 September
2001
Columnist r Abdulaziz al-Maqalih says in his article that he is as
sad for the victims of explosions that happened in various areas in the
United States of America as for he victims as a result of daily blasts
in occupied Palestine, the majority of whom are children, elderly people
and women. Those blasts include destruction of houses, burning farms and
indiscriminate shelling. Talking about my sadness for the victims here
and there, implicitly confirms a causative relationship joining the what
happens in Palestine and that which took place in New York city and Washington.
The enemy is the same, i.e. the Zionist terrorism. The American administration
tries to exclude and rule out that despite its bearing the responsibility
for what happens in Palestine owing to its insistence on providing the
Zionist entity with all lethal weapons that help it continue its annihilation
war against the Palestinian people. The stands of the American administration
make millions of people inside and outside the this homeland charged with
indignation and resentment towards this administration, considering it
their prime enemy.
The author maintains that terrorism is condemned and rejected as it
is a crime befalling innocent people having nothing to do with in what
goes on behind the scenes of conspiracies on peoples and homelands. At
the same time it could not at any rate be acceptable to enlist peoples'
struggle and resisting occupation under the banner of terrorism because
in such a case it represents injustice.
Saut Ashoura weekly, organ of People's Forces Union 16 September 2001
Mr Yahya al-Haddi writes saying that the atmospheres of nowadays remind
us of those that preceded the Gulf war ten years before. Statements, stances
of states, evacuation of nationals and talking about evidence. demonstrate
that we are approaching a war, which is prepared for by the United States
targeting Afghanistan that no longer possesses on its land to be destroyed
and against a legend called Bin Laden, America itself has established in
the first place.
It is natural to denounce the attacks that took place in the U.S. because
attacking civilians is a crime that must be encountered and world countries
should coordinate efforts to exterminate such phenomenon, but dealing blows
to Afghanistan would not solve the problem and Taliban is not the whole
problem, a matter the American administration knows well. Although American
official statements call for not linking perpetrators of the attacks to
Moslems and Arabs, the American media behave in a different way. for there
is a clear instigation against Moslems and Arabs. Statements of the American
government on investigations do target the same end. From all this it is
understood that Arabs and Moslems are the target of accusation despite
the fact that kidnapped planes had on board many people from other nationalities.
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