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Published Saturday, September 4, 2004

Siege Prompts Self-Criticism in Arab Media
By MAGGIE MICHAEL
Associated Press Writer
CAIRO, Egypt
Muslims worldwide are the main perpetrators of terrorism, a humiliating and painful truth that must be acknowledged, a prominent Arab writer and television executive wrote Saturday, as Middle East media and officials expressed horror at the bloody rebel siege of a Russian school.
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"Holy warriors" from the Middle East long have supported fellow Muslims fighting in Chechnya, and Russian officials said nine or 10 Arabs were among militants killed.
"Our terrorist sons are an end-product of our corrupted culture," Abdulrahman al-Rashed, general manager of Al-Arabiya television wrote in his daily column published in the pan-Arab Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper. It ran under the headline, "The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists are Muslims!"
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Most perpetrators of suicide operations in buses, schools and residential buildings around the world for the past 10 years have been Muslims," he wrote. Muslims will be unable to cleanse their image unless "we admit the scandalous facts," rather than offer condemnations or justifications.
"The picture is humiliating, painful and harsh for all of us," al-Rashed wrote.
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The horrifying images of the dead and wounded Russian students "showed Muslims as monsters who are fed by the blood of children and the pain of their families."
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Ali Abdullah, a Bahraini scholar who follows the ultraconservative Salafi stream of Islam, condemned the school attack as "un-Islamic," but insisted Muslims weren't behind it.
"I have no doubt in my mind that this is the work of the Israelis who want to tarnish the image of Muslims and are working alongside Russians who have their own agenda against the Muslims in Chechnya," said Abdullah.
An editorial in the Saudi English-language Arab News put some blame for the bloody end to the school siege on Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying he couldn't afford to lose his "tough-man image."
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Die Juden warns mal wieder :rofl::rofl::rofl:
Erst WTC, jetzt die Geisselnahme, laut einem ehemaligen Forenmember sprengen die Juden auch ihre eigene Busse in die luft
:wall::wall:

btw Tantawi gehoert garantiert nicht zu denen die das aufrichtig bedauern - Selbstmordanschlaege im Irak und in Israel begruesst er...
Bin gespannt ob die "Selbstkritik" aufrichtig ist - ein Kolumnist der Zeitung Al-Ahram lies mal verlauten das es in Israel keine Zivilisten gebe - entweder sind es zukuenftige Rekruten oder es sind Reservisten - warum soll man es nicht bei Russland dann anders halten....

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Russian Town Mourns As Putin Vows Fight

2 hours, 19 minutes ago

By MIKE ECKEL, Associated Press Writer

BESLAN, Russia - Wails of mourning echoed through the streets of this southern Russian town on Sunday, and the region's top police officer offered his resignation in the wake of the school hostage-taking that left at least 350 people dead.
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A shaken President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites) went on national television Saturday to make a rare admission of Russian weakness in the face of an "all-out war" by terrorists. He told the Russian people that they must mobilize against terrorism and promised wide-ranging reforms to toughen security forces and root out corruption.
"We showed weakness, and weak people are beaten," he said in an address aimed at addressing the grief, shock and anger felt by many after a string of terrorist attacks that have killed some 450 people in the past two weeks, apparently in connection with the war in Chechnya .
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