74 percent of Kuwaitis view Bin Laden as a Hero

An opinion poll held by the Kuwaiti daily al-Rai al-Aam and its results issued on Tuesday said that 74.34% of residents in Kuwait consider Osama Bin Laden as a "hero."

The opinion poll which was held by the newspaper in coordination with the "Kuwait's Mobile Phone company" on the occasion of the first anniversary of September 11 attacks, asked the Kuwaitis and other residents in the country to answer through sending short messages via the mobile on whether they view Bin Laden as a "hero" or a " criminal" or they are not they are not "interested " about him. This was after these questions were issued last week in the paper.

The results showed that some 15029 short messages were received, while the organizers of the poll canceled 3343 answers because of errors and 74.35% of the messages considered Bin Laden as a hero, while he was described by 2273 messages or 44.19% as "a criminal." Other 727 persons said they do not care about him.