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Bush 'squandered' post 9/11 goodwill - Gulf press
(AFP)
Updated: 2005-09-12 08:50
The administration of US President George W. Bush has squandered the global
goodwill generated by the September 11 attacks of four years ago, Gulf
newspapers said, AFP reported.
"There is a sense of deep unease at the direction the Bush White House is
taking," said the English-language Gulf News in the United Arab Emirates.
It cited "the go-it-alone attitude, the abject failure to catch Osama bin
Laden, the inability to stabilize Iraq, the inability to even guarantee an
electricity supply for Baghdad."
"Most serious of all is the good will that has been spent so callously by the
White House. In the words of that famous French newspaper headline four years
ago 'We are all Americans'... It is difficult to imagine that sentiment being
expressed today," the paper wrote.
A couple embrace at the reflective pool on the
footprint of the South Tower of the World Trade Center at Ground Zero on
the fourth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York
City.[AFP] | A total of 2,749 people died when the
twin towers of the World Trade Center collapsed after being hit by two hijacked
airliners in the most spectacular and devastating attack of bin Laden's Al-Qaeda
network.
Al-Bayan, another Emirati daily, said that four years after 9/11, the United
States was still "on the loose" while terrorism gave no sign of abating.
The United States has become obsessed with tracking down its adversaries
abroad "under the banner of 'fighting terrorism'," while the terrorists have
"widened the cycle of indiscriminate violence under the banner of fighting the
external Western enemy," the paper said.
Saudi Arabia's Al-Watan slammed the United States for tarring all Arabs and
Muslims with the terrorist brush "without differentiating between the Al-Qaeda
organization -- which includes Americans, Europeans and Asians within its ranks
-- and the Arab countries, chiefly Saudi Arabia, to which some Al-Qaeda elements
belong."
The first family members of victims arrive at
the reflective pool at the footprint of the South Tower of the World Trade
Center at Ground Zero on the Fourth Anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New
York City September 11, 2005.
[Reuters] | "Washington justifies this
generalization by the fact that most of those who carried out the attacks held
Saudi citizenship, overlooking the role Saudi Arabia played in uprooting
Al-Qaeda... from Saudi society."
Saudi Arabia, bin Laden's country of origin, has been battling Al-Qaeda
suspects who have carried out a spate of shootings and bombings in Saudi Arabia
since May 2003, many targeting Westerners.
Al-Watan said this month's meeting of the United Nations should seek to
find a common denominator on which all countries agree to define terrorism,
drawing a distinction between that scourge and resistance to occupation, "as
happens chiefly in Palestine."
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