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Arabs just love Jacques and Gerhard...
Many papers are grateful to France, Belgium and Germany for resisting US pressure to ready the US-led alliance for a possible attack on Iraq.

"We would like to present one million roses from the gardens of Arab dictators' presidential palaces to Germany and France," Sudan's Al-Ray Al-Am says. "With this gesture we would like to express our appreciation to them." The paper has a very different view of Washington: "The US is a dreadful military power, a cowboy frightening the whole world." But "the US is scared to death of Bin Laden and the al-Qaeda network, scared of Saddam Hussein and of North Korea."

Gratitude is also expressed by the UAE's Al-Ittihad. "It is obligatory for us, on behalf of the Muslims and the Arabs, to thank France and Germany," it says, "and all those standing firm in support of peace and justice."

London's Al-Arab Al-Almiyah also finds hope in the French-German-Belgian stance within Nato. "The salvation of the whole world," the paper says, "is linked to the extent of Old Europe's steadfastness in the face of the deadly American storm which aims to suppress the entire world to serve American interests over the corpses of millions of innocent people."
"Really. Blood-handed tin-hat dictators are people, too, y'know."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-02-12
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=10176