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Asia braces for war fallout

AFP, Kuala Lumpur
Asia is bracing for a conflict in Iraq as though it were the start of a new world war, in the sense that few countries feel they will be immune from the fallout.
Fears for the stability of governments, regional security and the risk of increased terrorism rank high alongside economic worries in a number of nations.
Australia's determination to send troops into a US-led war is expected to spark widespread protests and could do long-term political damage to conservative Prime Minister John Howard.
More than 400,000 demonstrators turned out last month to condemn Howard's pro-US Iraq policy in the biggest protests the nation has seen since the Vietnam war, and similar protests are already being organised for the day war erupts.
Recent opinion polls have for the first time since Howard took office shown voters favouring the opposition Labour Party at the national level. Surveys show up to 70 percent of the public opposed to his stance on Iraq.
Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is seen as certain to be blamed for any stockmarket debacle following a US-led attack on Iraq, which he does not oppose despite growing public anti-war sentiment.
There are also fears in Tokyo that North Korea would step up its military threat with a missile test-launch while US attention is diverted to the Middle East, another factor which could send Japanese share prices to new 20-year lows.
A telephone poll conducted by the Kyodo news agency found 79 percent of respondents were opposed to a US-led attack on Iraq.
Once war starts, Koizumi's approval rating, which slipped below 50 percent as he failed to deliver on economic reforms, will "sag to a fatally low rate without doubt," the popular daily Tokyo Shimbun commented Monday.
Muslim countries in the region fear that war in Iraq will stoke the fires of Islamic extremism. Malaysia's Acting Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who takes over leadership of the 57-member Organisation of the Islamic Conference in October, warned in an interview with AFP that war would "put the governments of Islamic countries under very severe strain."
"The militants and terrorists would obviously want to exploit the situation and even the moderate Muslims will be very angry," he said.
In Pakistan, where President Pervez Musharraf is already under fire for his cooperation with the United States in its military campaign in Afghanistan and the hunt for al-Qaeda fugitives, newly powerful Islamist parties are portraying an invasion of Iraq as an attack on the Muslim world.
A war is expected to heighten the already strong anti-US sentiment demonstrated in two of the largest protest rallies ever held this month, drawing around 100,000 in Karachi and 200,000 in Rawalpindi.
"We could possibly see a rise in terrorist attacks on Western targets," analyst Aqil Shah said.
Neighbouring Afghanistan is concerned that war in Iraq will deflect attention from its own war-affected plight and prompt a backlash by Islamic extremists.
President Hamid Karzai said he had been assured of Washington's continued commitment to Afghanistan, but international peacekeepers warn war could be a trigger for violence in a country where al-Qaeda and Taliban extremists are still a problem.
In the world's most populous Islamic country, Indonesia, police have made plans to control protesters, prevent Westerners from being targeted, secure businesses and foil any terrorist attacks, the authorities say.
Industry and Trade Minister Rini Suwandi said considering the moderate nature of Islam practised in Indonesia, the government was confident the situation would not get out of control. "But we're preparing," she said.
The Indonesian island of Bali was the scene last October of the biggest terror attack in the world after the September 11 suicide hijackings in the United States, with Western tourists targeted in bombings which killed 202 people, and analysts say an Iraq war could provoke more atrocities.