VOL. XLIV

No 46

12 November 2001

Arab Columnists On 11September Aftermath

(MEES Translations)

The following is a column by Tariq Masarawa (Jordanian) entitled ClearAnd Blunt Talking which was published in the Jordanian daily al-Rai on 2 November:

Prime minister Tony Blair and theWestern world would do well to listen to the clear and blunt point of view ofthe Arabs: what we see as terrorism is not what Washington and London define asterrorism.

In the 1950s, the UK tried toconvince the region as a...