[aruanan]

I truncated this after the Bahrain part. The time posted If the date on the email was earlier than the time the AP story was posted, it's more to be believed than not.

Online

April 19, 2002 Friday 3:11 PM Eastern Time

SECTION: INTERNATIONAL NEWS

LENGTH: 456 words

HEADLINE: White House Seeks to Reassure Arabs

BYLINE: BARRY SCHWEID; AP Diplomatic Writer

DATELINE: WASHINGTON

BODY:

The Bush administration assured the Arab world on Friday that it would keep working with Yasser Arafat on a pathway to peace.

But anti-American and anti-Israel sentiment was strong.

In Bahrain, more than 3,000 marched from a mosque in the capital Manama to the U.N. office chanting: "Death to the U.S. and Israel!" They burned an effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and called on the government to close the U.S. Embassy and the U.S. base on the island. Bahrain hosts the headquarters of the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet.

[LarryLied]

Thanks. That AP article was news to me. I knew we used a pier there and our heavy transports go into Bahrain but didn't know our 5th fleet headquarters are there. Well, we do have the firepower handy to take care of any unrest, don't we?