U.S. practices increase anti-American sentiments worldwide

BAGHDAD, November 22 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – U.S. injustice and terrorism could only lead to more acts of violence against Americans around the world, a day after another round of U.S.-British air strikes, Iraq warned Friday, November 22.

"Terrorism can only stir hatred for America and Americans, and this is what is happening from the far east to the far west, and every day we witness this against U.S. soldiers, civilians, companies, restaurants, military bases, and all the security measures can not prevent this," said the ruling Baath Party.

"Only (recently) news agencies have reported three incidents against Americans in three different parts of the world, and not in Afghanistan, and more is to come," it said through its mouthpiece, the daily Ath-Thawra.

The paper was referring to the shooting of two U.S. soldiers in Kuwait, the killing of a U.S. missionary nurse in southern Lebanon and the torching of a McDonald's restaurant in Saudi Arabia, Agence France-Presse (AFP) said.

In the past year, the anger has spilled over into attacks against U.S. targets because of the U.S. bias toward Israel in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the U.S. war in Afghanistan, and U.S. plan to attack Iraq.

"The blame is not on (U.S. President George W.) Bush and his Zionist clique, but the blame and the responsibility is on the UN Security Council, which issues unjust resolutions such as Resolution 1441 to allow Bush and his like to explain it the way they want and use this explanation as a pretext and a cover for an aggression" against Baghdad, said Ath-Thawra.

On November 8, the Security Council adopted Resolution 1441 which sets strict new conditions for Iraqi disarmament and threatens "serious consequences" if Baghdad does not cooperate.

"The Security Council also fails to adopt any serious, just and decisive position over the U.S. aggressions against other countries and peoples," the paper said.

"Bush and members of his gang think that they can scare others with their terrorist policies and achieve their evil objectives," it said.

"But terrorism only brings crises and catastrophes to America and the Americans because terrorism can only lead to violence ... as it is happening in occupied Palestine," it said.

The warnings come a day after Iraq reported that U.S. and British warplanes hit civilian targets in the south of the country, while the U.S. military said it had bombed military installations in the region.

Meanwhile, concerning the latest on the investigation of the Kuwait shooting, an officer said Friday that the U.S. military has nothing so far to indicate the shooting of two American soldiers, allegedly by a Kuwaiti police officer, was linked to any groups.

"I don't think we've seen anything that indicates" it was an attack involving "al-Qaeda or some other terrorist organization", Colonel Rick Thomas, a spokesman at Camp Doha military base, told AFP.

Asked if the shooting was considered an anti-American attack, Thomas said, "I think until we finish the joint investigation" with the Kuwaitis, the motive can not be established.

Kuwaiti newspapers Friday said the suspect, identified as Khalid Messier al-Shimmari, was not affiliated with any religious group and that he had a history of psychological problems.

Two U.S. soldiers traveling along a highway south of Kuwait City were shot by a gunman Thursday morning. Camp Doha said the soldiers, who are assigned to the Third Army, were in a civilian vehicle but out "on official business."

Their condition was labeled "serious but stable" and their status remained the same Friday, Thomas said. One was shot in the face and the other in the shoulder.

The emirate's interior minister said a junior Kuwaiti police officer was the assailant and that he had fled across the border into Saudi Arabia.

A senior Kuwaiti security source told AFP the assailant in Thursday's, November 21, attack "had been admitted to hospital three times for psychiatric treatment."

The source, who is close to the investigation, said the suspect "dropped his companion, another policeman, at home and told him he was going to buy a newspaper and would be returning. The incident happened while he was out buying the paper."

The suspect may have initially pulled the two soldiers over for speeding before shooting them, the source said.

The attack, condemned by Kuwaiti officials and MPs, was the fifth shooting incident involving U.S. forces in Kuwait since October 8 when two Kuwaitis killed a marine and wounded another during war games on Failaka island, 20 kilometers (12 miles) east of Kuwait City.

Since the Failaka attack, U.S. forces have been caught up in three more shooting incidents, but no injuries were reported and it was never clarified if they had actually been targeted.

Around 10,000 U.S. troops are currently based in Kuwait, mostly at Camp Doha, 30 kilometers (19 miles) north of Kuwait City.

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