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ISLAMABAD: The worst floods in the living memory of Pakistan remained an obvious topic of concern for the diplomatic corps in Islamabad throughout the week as Europeans and especially UN officials questioned the response of the Muslim world to a mammoth disaster wreaking havoc in the second-most populated Muslim country of the world. Few gatherings of foreign emissaries rallied around the unending phases of floods happening in across the country, devastating over 15 million people and destroying over two million acres of standing crops while washing away millions of homes and state structures in over 70 – 37 directly and...

WE HATE YOU! NOW GIVE US MORE MONEY. By Michelle Malkin   ·   May 23, 2005 06:56 AM That's the gist of a recent survey of college-educated men and women in Egypt, Morocco and Indonesia. Anti-American feelings are widespread in the Muslim world and extend to U.S. consumer brands, according to a report released Wednesday. It suggested the U.S. burnish its image with a change in tone and by publicizing aid programs. But as blogger Mike A. at Probably Correct, who pointed me to the survey, observes, that's "[j]ust exactly opposite [of] what the UN told the US last December, when...

By Jeremy McDermott BBC correspondent in Bogota As the crisis deepens in the Middle East and the US lines up further foes in the war on terrorism, President George W Bush has petitioned Congress to lift restrictions on American aid to Colombia, currently limited to the war on drugs. The Colombians want the US to help it defeat its estimated 25,000 guerrillas and end the 37-year civil conflict, but how far will the US go and what difference can they really make? In 2000, President Bill Clinton granted more than $1bn of military aid to Colombia. But to secure bipartisan...