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IP: From the WSJ -- whose site is now free
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 09:17:19 -0400
For many Americans, a more tangible and bitter image of anti-American sentiment abroad will be the scenes of some abroad celebrating the terrorist attacks on Americans. In the West Bank, thousands of Palestinians took to the streets to herald the attacks and express their happiness. And in Sierra Leone, Pakistani members of a United Nations peacekeeping force were laughing, smiling and slapping hands at the mission headquarters in Freetown. Other UN mission personnel jeered them and threw insults. Such scenes are likely to feed the impulse many Americans already harbor to withdraw inward.
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