Israel national News

Bahraini Daily Calls War on Terror “Genocide”

07 October 2001

The Bahraini daily, Akhbar al-Khalij, published an editorial which stated, “What America wants to do (in Afghanistan) is a type of genocide. Therefore, it will be a dangerous precedent if Arab and Muslim countries agree to participate in a comprehensive war against an Islamic country...”

Furthermore, the daily’s editorial reminded its readers that the American war against terrorism is not limited to Afghanistan, as President Bush stated, but a war against those states supporting or harboring terrorists. “In short,” the editorial continues, “the enemy which America tries to establish a coalition against is us, the Arabs and Muslims, our countries and our civilization.” In fact, the American war is ongoing, according to the Bahraini newspaper: “We, the Arabs, have been the people who have suffered most from terrorism. Thousands of our (Palestinian) people have fallen victims to the most ugly terrorism in the world--Zionist terrorism… Why does America besiege entire Arab nations in Iraq, Libya and Sudan, why does it find the death of thousands of those peoples acceptable?”

-- Anonymous, October 09, 2001