["Which country really poses the greatest danger to world peace in 2003? TIME asks for readers' views."--Results to date: North Korea 5.6 %; Iraq 6.5 %; The United States 87.9 %; Total Votes Cast: 673,027 -- "TIME Magazine," March 10, 2003]

Al Goodman, "Polls: 90 percent of Spaniards against war," CNN, March 29, 2003

William Pfaff, "A fiction shattered by America's aggression," International Herald Tribune, November 1, 2003

[The survey, conducted in October, of 500 people from each of the EU's member nations included a list of 15 countries with the question, 'tell me if in your opinion it presents or not a threat to peace in the world'. Israel was reportedly picked by 59 per cent of those interviewed.--Peter Beaumont, "Israel outraged as EU poll names it a threat to peace," Guardian, November 2, 2003]

[Only 5 percent of those polled said they believed the United States invaded Iraq "to assist the Iraqi people," and only 1 percent believed it was to establish democracy there.--Walter Pincus, "Skepticism About U.S. Deep, Iraq Poll Shows," Washington Post, November 12, 2003]

Richard Morin and Dana Milbank, "Most Think Truth Was Stretched to Justify Iraq War," Washington Post, February 13, 2004

Jeff Sallot, "Bush lied to justify Iraq war, Canada right to stay out: poll," Globe and Mail, March 15, 2004

[BBC World asked 1,500 viewers of its news and international channel for the biggest problems in the world with 52% saying the US and globalisation.--"'US is bigger threat than terror'," BBC News, April 9, 2004]

[the findings of a new survey of African attitudes, thought to be the biggest-ever of its kind . . . 54 per cent of the interviewees - not just among Muslims - saw the US as a threat.--"Us and them," Independent, October 18, 2004]

[Fifty-eight per cent of the 22,000 who took part in the poll, commissioned by the BBC World Service, said they expected Mr Bush to have a negative impact on peace and security, compared with only 26% who considered him a positive force.--Ewen MacAskill, "World fears new Bush era," Guardian, January 20, 2005]

[That put the United States behind China (69 percent positive), and not even in the overall Top 10 countries, regions or groups that Australians respect.--Raymond Bonner, "U.S. Image in Australia Isn't So Good, Poll Finds," New York Times, March 29, 2005]

[15 of the 23 countries surveyed said the US had a negative influence in the world.--Raymond Bonner, "Europe influence seen as positive," BBC, April 6, 2005]

["America is less a beacon of hope than a dangerous force to be countered." So says a report by a nine-member State Department ad hoc advisory committee--"U.S. Needs to Go Goodwill Hunting," Washington Post, September 30, 2005]

Julian Borger and Uki Goni, "Bush feels hand of God as poll ratings slump," Guardian, November 5, 2005

[Asked to name the two nations that present the greatest threat to regional peace, 70 percent named Israel, 63 percent the United States, and 11 percent Britain. Only 6 percent named our bete noire Iran.--Patrick J. Buchanan, "Might the Arabs Have a Point?," American Conservative, January 16, 2006]

Brian Knowlton, "Image of U.S. falls again," International Herald Tribune, June 13, 2006

Ewen MacAskill, "US seen as a bigger threat to peace than Iran, worldwide poll suggests," Guardian, June 15, 2006

[30 per cent of respondents believe the U.S. is the greatest threat to global stability.--"Europeans See U.S. as Threat to Global Stability," Angus Reid, September 5, 2006]

[British voters see George Bush as a greater danger to world peace than either the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, or the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.--Julian Glover, "British believe Bush is more dangerous than Kim Jong-il," Guardian, November 3, 2006]

[The World Service survey, conducted in 25 nations including the US, found that three in four respondents disapproved of how Washington had dealt with Iraq.

The majority of the 26,381 respondents also disapproved of the way five other foreign policy areas had been handled.--"View of US's global role 'worse'," BBC News, January 23, 2007]

Simon Tisdall, "Environment and US policy top global fears," Guardian, June 28, 2007

[In the US itself, North Korea and Iran are seen as the biggest risks. However, the youngest US respondents share the Europeans' view that theirs is the biggest threat, with 35 per cent of American 16- to 24-year-olds identifying it as the chief danger to stability.--Daniel Dombey and Stanley Pignal, " Europeans see US as threat to peace," Financial Times, July 1, 2007]
fishman3811 Reviewed by fishman3811 on . Iranian police arrest partygoers Police in Iran say they have arrested 20 young people at a party in the city of Karaj, north-west of the capital Tehran, on Wednesday night. More than 200 people were arrested a week ago in the same city for attending an illegal rock concert. Parties, attended by members of both sexes, and where alcohol is consumed, are illegal in Iran. The Iranian authorities have in recent months increased their enforcement of what is deemed to be moral behaviour. Dress codes for women have been Rating: 5