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??