WEDNESDAY,OCT.17,2001
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AIDS epidemic keeps growing in South Africa
The Associated Press
CAPE TOWN, South Africa Researchers unveiled a report yesterday estimating AIDS could kill as many as 7 million South Africans by 2010, and said government officials disputing the findings simply did not understand them.
The report, commissioned by the Medical Research Council, said AIDS would account for one-third of all
deaths in South Africa this year — and nearly two-thirds by 2010 without radical changes in personal behavior and more government action to fight the disease.
"South Africa is experiencing an HIV/AIDS epidemic of shattering dimensions," the report said. "These shocking results need to galvanize efforts to minimize the devastation of the epidemic."
It predicted average life expectancy would drop from 54 to 41 years in the country.
The government, which has drawn widespread criticism for its handling of the AIDS crisis, wanted to delay the report's release until December to coincide with publication of another set of AIDS statistics compiled by Statistics South Africa, a government agency. AIDS activists accused the government of suppressing the report to hide the extent of the crisis.
However, a partial copy of the report was leaked to the media, and the government decided to allow its release. Statistics South Africa called the study badly flawed, saying the samples were not representative and assumptions about the probability of HIV transmission were not necessarily accurate.
sarily describe Using a lower transmission rate would reduce the number of projected AIDS deaths by 2010 to between 1 million and
2 million, Statistics South Africa said.
An estimated 4.7 million South Africans are infected with HIV.
Kod Dorrington, a professor at the University of Cape Town's Center for Actuarial Research and one of the report's authors, said Statistics South Africa's assessment of the report was "prime evidence of the little knowledge or experience they have in this area."
Al-Jazeera to air only part of U.S. interview
The Associated Press
CAIRO, Egypt — President Bush's national security adviser went on Arabic television hoping to explain U.S. actions in Afghanistan, but the influential Al-Jazeera station repeatedly aired only comments likely to inflame Arab passions.
The incident underlines the West's difficulties in getting its message across to the Muslim world: The war against terrorism is not a war against Islam and Arabs.
Al-Jazeera, based in Qatar and widely watched in the Middle East and by Arabic speakers in the United States, has emerged as a key opinion maker because of its independent editorial policy — a rarity in the region.
tional policy.
In her interview with Al-Jazeera on Monday, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice demanded that the Palestinians halt violence against Israel and expressed Washington's concerns about Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. She also discussed Washington's reasons for its attacks on Afghanistan and assured Muslims they were not the target of the war on terrorism.
Viewers, however, will not see the remarks on Afghanistan and the war on terror until the full interview is aired, a broadcast that by late yesterday had not been firmly scheduled.
But the comments on the Palestinians and Iraq — all likely to anger
Hamiq Qandil, a veteran Egyptian TV anchor, told The Associated Press,
"America has already lost ... before the whole interview is aired."
Arabs were aired more than a dozen times to promote the interview.
Al-Jazeera officials said they got the tape of Monday's interview in Washington yesterday morning and needed time to translate it and cut it to fit into their 30-minute weekly program "Exclusive Interview," which airs after midnight in the Mideast.
Al-Jazeera news editor Ahmed Sheikh said his station believed the West was getting a fair chance to present its case to Muslims and Arabs.
According to a transcript of her interview released by the White
Oraib El-Rantawi, director of the Jerusalem Center for Islamic Studies in Amman, Jordan, said the arguments would be more convincing "if they were accompanied by some crucial solutions for problems in the region, especially the Palestinian issue."
House, Rice repeated recent comments by other U.S. leaders in favor of statehood for Palestinians.
Reda Helal, an Egyptian columnist, said that the West's public relations campaign should have preceded the military campaign. Then "the United States and the West would have been able to win the struggle over the Arabs' hearts and minds."
Iraq denounces Arab countries
BAGHDAD, Iraq — President Saddam Hussein criticized Arab nations yesterday for doing little to oppose the U.S. air campaign against Afghanistan.
The Associated Press
"I am sorry for the stand governments of Arab countries have adopted toward Afghanistan because it does not please Muslims," the official Iraqi News Agency quoted Saddam as
His comments followed an Oct. 10 meeting of foreign ministers representing the Organization of the Islamic Conference, which failed to condemn the attacks on Afghanistan.
condemn the attacks against Saddam said he felt the "sorrow" non-Arab Muslims felt at the "weak stands" taken by Arab Muslim nations, who should be examples to follow. Few Muslims in Afghanistan are Arab.
low. Few Muslims in Iraq has denied any relation to Afghanistan's Taliban rulers and Osama bin Laden al-Qaida network, though a newspaper owned by Saddam's eldest son recently praised bin Laden.
Iraqi religious leaders issued a fatwa, or religious edict, yesterday banning Muslims from "helping blasphemers."
The statement, which was carried by the official news agency, warned Islamic nations "not to fall into the trap ... set during the aggression against Iraq in 1991," a reference to those who sided with the United States during the Gulf War.
Pakistan and Turkey, two nations with Muslim populations, have offered the United States logistical support in its military campaign against Afghanistan. Other Arab Muslim nations have frozen the assets of individuals or groups named by the United States as being linked to terrorism.
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