UNITED U.S. MUSLIMS TO VOTE AGAINST BUSH RE-ELECTION/New WMW

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UNITED U.S. MUSLIMS TO VOTE AGAINST BUSH RE-ELECTION/New WMW

Edited on Tue Sep-02-03 07:45 PM by Gloria

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WORLD MEDIA WATCH For September 3, 2003

1//IslamOnline.net, Qatar--UNITED U.S. MUSLIMS TO VOTE AGAINST BUSH RE-ELECTION (Leaders of the U.S. Muslim community intend to deliver a bloc vote in next year's presidential elections, one that will go against the candidate they endorsed last time - President George W. Bush. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the American Muslim Council, the American Muslim Alliance, and the Muslim Public Affairs Council agreed this weekend to cooperate on a voter registration drive that they hope will send one million Muslims to say "No" to Bush's 2004 re-election bid…The message is to reflect widespread "dissatisfaction" in the Muslim American community with the Bush administration's treatment of Arab and Muslim Americans since the September 11 attacks, Nihad Awad, CAIR Executive Director was quoted by Agence France-Presse (AFP) as saying.)
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2003-09/02/article07.shtml

2//Deutsche-Welle/dw-world.de, Germany--AFGHANISTAN – “DANGEROUS DEPLOYMENT FOR SEVERAL YEARS” (German Defense Minister Struck has confirmed Afghanistan, though “dangerous”, will be the new focal point for future foreign military deployments and German troops will be reduced in the Balkans. After the controversial decision this week to send German peacekeepers to the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, taking them outside the capital Kabul for the first time, German Defense Minister Peter Struck went a step further over the weekend. In an interview with the Bild am Sonntag newspaper, the defense minister said he estimated troops would remain in the country for several years. In December this year, the German parliament is expected to extend Germany’s Afghanistan mandate by a year. "It the parliament does approve, then German soldiers will possibly support reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan for several years," he said. Afghanistan, he said, will be "the focal point for German foreign deployments.")

3//The News International, Pakistan--PAKISTAN TO SEND MORE TROOPS TO SAUDI ARABIA(Civil and military authorities in Pakistan have decided to provide additional military and security personnel to Saudi Arabia to fill the gap created by the withdrawal of the US and other Western troops from the Kingdom, reliable defence sources told The News…Additional Pak forces in Saudi Arabia, besides other operations, would put in action the expansion plan of the existing light weapons and ammunition production venture in the Kingdom by including the project to produce mortar and heavy munitions, the defence source said.)

4//Inter Press Service, Italy--ARAFAT BACK IN THE FOREFRONT (With the appointment of the old chief of preventive security on the West Bank Jibril Rajoub as his national security adviser, Arafat has staked his claim to be once again the sole power dominating the Palestinian political landscape. Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, it appears now in political circles in Ramallah, will have to back down or back out.)

5//The Moscow Times, Russia--CNN, CNBC ON BOARD FOR RBC-TV LAUNCH(RBC-TV, the country's first 24-hour business news channel, is set to go on air Sept. 2, after signing cooperation agreements with CNN International and CNBC Europe…RosBusinessConsulting, a Russian business information agency founded a decade ago, has secured $23 million for the project; $17 million from the agency itself and the remaining $6 million through a private debt placement with Western investors…Its partnership agreements with London-based CNN International and CNBC Europe were not mentioned at the preliminary launch in May, though CNBC employees had been brought in to help train the new staff.)

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