Five years after 9/11, Arab resentment grows

Five years after 9/11, Arab resentment grows
U.S. ‘War on Terror’ not winning friends in the Arab world

By Jim Maceda
Correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 11:56 a.m. CT Sept 11, 2006

Jim Maceda
Correspondent

BEIRUT, Lebanon — September 11th is a date that resonates in several ways for the Arab world.

It is marked with pride and celebration by al-Qaida leaders and operatives; it is mourned by the families of hundreds of Muslim victims who died in the terrorist attacks five years ago. And, for many ordinary Arabs, from Cairo, to Riyadh, to Beirut, it evokes fear — and the prospect of further pain.

“9/11 was a turning point,” explained Makram Rabah, a law major and one of several graduate students I spoke to at the American University of Beirut campus this week. ''This is a new world war, basically, that will change everything. It has changed our lives from bad to worse,” he said..........

Many students pointed to tens of thousands of Muslim civilians have been killed or wounded in various U.S. or Israeli offensives, from Baghdad to Gaza.

''The harm that was done to America happened in one day, 9/11,'' said political science grad Basma Nabulsi, a Jordanian, ''but the harm that has happened in this region is continuous.''

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