For politicians in countries like Italy, with both strong anti-American movements and troops in Iraq, the risks are obvious.

Baisley DePauw opening his heart and his checkbook to every crack-brained anti-American movement that had come up in Eemo's remembrance.

But many indigenous anti-American movements are growing because of the war on terror.

The result was an anti-American movement in the 1980s that threatened to bring down the whole structure of American support for the ROK.

"Actually," it goes on, "he's a cog in a low-rent anti-American movement that practices moral equivalency and emboldens those who would terrorize America."

Mr. Nemtsov said the bombing, if it continues, could provoke a powerful anti-American political movement that would severely weaken the influence of pro-Western reformers in Russia.

"Broadly speaking there is an anti-West, anti-American movement now in Pakistan," said one senior official.

Mun became one of the leaders of the anti-American movement in South Korea in the 1980s, describing the military presence as an "occupation force".

Earlier in the day, President-elect Roh met with the protest leaders, hoping to turn off the anti-American movement that helped him win the election.

However, its precursor was propaganda leaflets issued by students and pupils in Saigon during their anti-American movements in the Vietnam War.