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[Doug Millison]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,659118,00.html

Muslim peoples doubt role of Arabs in September 11

Brian Whitaker
Thursday February 28, 2002
The Guardian

Most people in Muslim countries do not believe that Arabs carried out the
September 11 attacks in the United States, according to a new Gallup poll.

Overall, only 18% believe that Arabs were responsible and 61% do not. The
percentage of those who did not believe the proposition was highest in
Kuwait (89%) and Pakistan (86%).

In the poll, interviewees overwhelmingly described the United States as
"ruthless, aggressive, conceited, arrogant, easily provoked, biased," Frank
Newport, the editor-in-chief of Gallup, said.

In the first polling exercise of its kind, Gallup interviewed 10,000 people
in Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, Saudi
Arabia and Turkey.

Overall, 53% said they had an unfavourable opinion of the US and 22% a
favourable opinion. President George Bush was disliked by 58% and liked by
11%. US military action in Afghanistan was thought morally unjustifiable by
77% and justifiable by nine per cent.

Although the countries polled are predominantly Muslim, Gallup said it had
not screened interviewees on the basis of religion or nationality. This
means the results probably include many Christians in Lebanon and
foreigners in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

Another poll, for the Institute for Jewish and Community Research in the
US, found that 70% of Americans believe that Iraq supports terrorism, and
64% believe Iran does.

Saudi Arabia is regarded as a patron of terror by 44% of Americans, but
North Korea by only 38%.