JEDDAH, 12 November — Most readers of Arab News online (www.arabnews.com) do not believe Osama Bin Laden was involved in the anthrax attacks on the United States and other countries around the world, according to our most recent opinion poll.
More than 4,000 readers responded to the questionnaire.
Fifty-six percent of them said someone other than the Afghan-based Bin Laden was behind the attacks. Of those, 25 percent pointed to right-wing Israelis. Another 23 percent said it was white American supremacists, while eight percent think it was someone else entirely — but again, not Bin Laden.
However, the largest number of respondents, 44 percent, said Bin Laden was indeed responsible.
The survey was conducted before the US announced that personal profiling indicates it was more likely to have been a domestic terrorist who was responsible, and concluded that he or she was probably a loner taking advantage of instability in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.
However, that would not explain why so many of the letters were apparently postmarked Sept. 8.
