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UPDATED 11 PM Cairo time
Sunday, October 7, 2001
Breaking news
US and UK strike Afghanistan... This is not a war against the Afghan people or against Islam, Bush, Blair and Rumsfeld assure the world... Al-Jazeera broadcasts footage of bin Laden and his inner circle denouncing the US attack, and calling on all Muslims to defend themselves against US attacks.
(cairolive.com, October 7, 2001)
The United States and the United Kingdom have begun their air attacks on Afghanistan. There have been reports of attacks on Kabul, Kandahar and Jalalabad, but no details have been released.
In their addresses to the world, US President George Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld all deny that this is a war against the Afghan people or against Islam as a religion.
As evidence they all mention that humanitarian assistance – food and medicine, etc, -- is being dropped onto the country along with the bombs.
 In an interesting reversal, CNN and Western networks have become dependent on an Arab satellite channel, Qatar's Al-Jazeera channel, for much of their footage of this war. The world watched as CNN aired Al-Jazeera's footage of Osama bin Laden and his inner circle, accompanied by a poor translation of bin Laden denouncing the US attack, and calling on all Muslims to defend themselves against US attacks.
The immediate reaction:
How many will die as a result of the attacks?
Who gave bin Laden the right to speak for Islam?
…Developing…
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