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| French Muslims regret Eiffel tower didn't get hit |
| 2001-11-02 |
The only thing 19-year-old Mounir blames Osama bin Laden for is not slamming a plane into the Eiffel Tower, too. His friend Najib, 18, agrees that bin Laden, named by the U.S. as the prime suspect in the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, is a hero. ``Bin Laden has already won this war: He struck at America's heart and exposed its weakness,'' said Najib. ``The U.S. deserved it. It always acted in an arrogant manner, and now it reaped what it sowed.'' They were speaking 6 miles from the Eiffel Tower that Mounir wants to see destroyed. And they're French. The high school students of Moroccan and Algerian origin live in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, home to many young, low- income "beurs,'' as those of North African origin are known.(Bloomberg, by Jad Mouawad) |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |