Media Monitors Network (MMN)

"The intense anti-U.S. hatred of al Qaeda has to be ascribed to American freedom, culture, wealth, or technology, all of which cannot be changed desirably or easily. By contrast, American citizens-including U.S. athletes and spectators at future Olympics-could be made much safer by rapidly making a meddling U.S. foreign policy overseas more humble. But then the latter change would be a new form of terror-striking fear into the hearts of the U.S. foreign policy elite and the interests they represent."

"Should we make the unfortunate choice of going to war, then I demand that those who do die should as a minimum, be given a true hero's welcome when returned home. Not quietly sneaked back in to Dover Air Force Base in the dead of night with a White House-mandated media blackout serving as a nerve block to prevent the public from putting a real face of death on war."

"The Al-Sadr militia does not pose any threat to the U.S. forces. But Al-Sadr made it clear that the Americans have to leave soon. His supporters are also becoming more popular, providing needed social services in the Shi'a cities of Najaf, Kufa and Karbala in the south and at the Al-Sadr city, a suburb of Baghdad."

"Israeli governments naturally time their most controversial moves to coincide with the American elections. The more closely fought the elections, the more attractive it is for Israeli planners and adventurers."

"The assumptions that shaped US thinking during the Soviet era do not apply in the case of the Arab world today. Sharply declining Arab public attitude toward the US can not be blamed on either a lack of information or on the Arab media."