[R-G] Russian poll: Americans 'deserved' 911 attacks

[Barry Stoller]

AFP. 10 September 2002. Russians believe Americans "deserved" September
11 attacks: poll.

MOSCOW -- More than one in two Russians believe that the United States
deserved the September 11 attacks, according to an opinion poll
published Monday.

Fifty-two percent answered yes when asked if they agreed that "the
Americans got what they deserved and know now how the people of
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Iraq and Yugoslavia felt under bombardment," the
survey showed.

According to the poll, carried out by the All Russian Public Opinion
Center the main reason for the US campaign in Afghanistan was "to show
who rules the world" (22 percent).

Then came "vengeance" (20 percent), "the wish to uphold US prestige in
the world" (16 percent), while only 15 percent said the US action was to
"destroy terrorist bases."

Another 11 percent pointed to "a desire to establish a US military
presence in Central Asia" while six percent of respondents explained the
war in Afghanistan as "maintaining (US President George W.) Bush's
prestige among Americans."

Surveyors spoke with 1,600 Russians aged over 18 late last month.


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Barry Stoller
http://www.utopia2000.org
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