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WORLD MEDIA WATCH FOR NOVEMBER 14, 2003
1//The Independent, UK--BLAIR ‘DISHONEST, SHALLOW AND CHEAP’ IN JUSTIFYING BUSH VISIT, SAYS COOK (Mr Cook attacks Mr Blair for attributing the huge protests planned next week to "resurgent anti-Americanism". He says this is "a dishonest, shallow, cheap argument, not worthy of such a consummate communicator ... It is entirely possible to want warm relations with the American people while keeping a prudent distance from the foreign adventures of President Bush.")
2//Asia Times Online, Hong Kong--JIHADI ANGER: AFTER ITALY, AUSTRALIA? (Australia has reasons to be more worried than any other country, except the US and the UK, about the threat of being targeted by the IIF. The campaign against it in the mosques and madrassas of Pakistan since last November has been quite virulent. The LET, which has close links with Jemaah Islamiyah and extremist organizations of Indonesia, shares their anger against Australia because of its perceived role in East Timor. Moreover, for the first time, reports coming out of the madrassas of Pakistan speak of the presence of Australian students in some of them.)
3//The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia-- FRENCH-GERMAN ALLIANCE WARMS AMID US COLD WAR(France is threatening to unite with Germany to maintain their influence in an enlarged European Union and strengthen their common front against the United States, according to reports yesterday. Foreign minister Dominique de Villepin was quoted by Le Monde speaking explicitly about "Franco-German union" and to have called the further deepening of ties between the countries "the one historic challenge we cannot lose"… Pascal Lamy, one of France's EU commissioners, spoke enthusiastically of the idea in Le Monde. He said it could start with the unification of France and Germany's diplomatic services and the sharing of France's permanent seat on the United Nations security council…Senior French diplomats concede that they have given up on their relationship with America as long as President Bush remains in office. Since opposing the war in Iraq, France has been ignored in Washington and Paris says its attempts at reconciliation have failed.)
4//The Moscow Times, Russia--PUTIN CALMS IMF AS PROSECUTORS TURN UP HEAT (President Vladimir Putin on Thursday reiterated his position that the legal assault on Yukos and its top shareholders is not part of a wider campaign to redistribute property. But the Prosecutor General's Office suggested otherwise.)
Related: THE BUZZ IS ABOUT YUKOS IN BOSTON
5//The Philippine Daily Inquirer, Philppines- MACAPAGAL BLAMES FOES FOR VIOLENT WEDNESDAY PROTEST (President Macapagal-Arroyo on Thursday blamed "unscrupulous political leaders" for egging on the poor to stage Wednesday's protest rally in Makati City -- even as ousted President Joseph Estrada literally distanced himself from the mass action…In a telephone interview with the Inquirer, Estrada strongly condemned the violent dispersal of about 10,000 protesters calling for the ouster of Ms Macapagal and Chief Justice Hilario Davide Jr… Noting the violent dispersal of the Makati protesters, Estrada asked: "Does this government still follow the Constitution?" The organizers of the Ayala march blamed Ms Macapagal for the mayhem and condemned the police for the "brutal" dispersal. Saying they would not be cowed by water cannons, tear gases and truncheons, the organizers vowed to stage bigger protest actions in the next few days.)
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