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Gulf States want an advertising campaign to clean up their tarnished image
Gulf Arab leaders, worried that the West increasingly sees Arabs and Muslims as âevil,â plan to launch a multimillion-dollar media campaign to improve their peoples' image. The annual conference of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) was expected to approve a plan to counter what it sees as a campaign of âhatred and enmityâ towards Arabs and Muslims since the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. âThe campaign against Arab countries, especially Saudi Arabia, is itself a form of terrorism,â Omani Foreign Minister Youssef Bin Alawi Bin Abdullah said on the eve of the summit.
It'll take a lot of money and a lot of advertising to convince most of us that smashing the WTC and the Pentagon wasn't "evil." It'll take even more to convince us that there hasn't been a sustained 20-year campaign of attacks against us.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2001-12-30 |
