> Your experience is very encouraging - thanks for the report. We
are having
> a "teach-in" about the war here at Johns Hopkins next
Thursday. Hopkins is
> also a conservative place, but a sizable
contingency of students have
> already voiced their opposition to the war,
so hopefully our event will
> also be successful.
And the following newspaper excerpts indicate popular opposition outside of
the USA may influence the objectives and direction of the war now and
thereafter:
KENYA
News
Saturday, October 13, 2001
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Muslims take to the streets over military action
By NATION Team
Thousands of angry Muslims defied the Government and took to the
streets of Nairobi and Mombasa yesterday, protesting at the United States-led
attacks on Afghanistan.
They claimed air strikes against the country's Taliban rulers
were an assault on Islam.
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PAKISTAN
Anti-American
Demonstrators Riot in Karachi
By Pamela Constable
Washington Post Foreign
Service
Friday, October 12, 2001; 12:39 PM
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Oct. 12 – Thousands of angry demonstrators destroyed a
Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet in Karachi today, ripped up American flags as
anti-terrorist police surrounded them in Quetta, and pummeled effigies of
President Bush to bits in this northwest Pakistani city.
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JO
