THE US: The US-led invasion of Iraq has widened the rift between the United States and the rest of the world, and encouraged a surge of anti-Americanism in Muslim countries, according to a global opinion poll. Conor O'Clery reports from Washington
The survey shows that in almost every one of the 20 countries taking part, large majorities, especially in Europe, mostly blame President Bush rather than America in general for problems with the US.
In a finding that will particularly worry the Bush administration, the survey identified an astonishing level of support for the al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden, in the Muslim world.
Solid majorities in Jordan, Indonesia and the Occupied Territories, and nearly half those in Morocco and Pakistan, say they have at least some confidence in Osama bin Laden to "do the right thing".
Even in countries friendly to the United States, only modest percentages had confidence that President Bush would do the right thing in international affairs.
The survey was conducted by the Pew Research Centre in Washington, a non-partisan body chaired by former Secretary of State, Madeline Albright.
"We have entered the post-post-9/11 world," Ms Albright said introducing the report in Washington. The "helpful" attitude to the US after September 11th, 2001, has been replaced by hostility and a "fear about what we have in mind," she said.
Something she never thought she would see and what was of great concern to her was that "people now fear American power", she said.
In the European countries surveyed - France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain - the standing of the US was well down from a similar poll last year but slightly up from a pre-war survey in March.
In France, which led the opposition to war, 43 per cent expressed a positive view of America, well above the 31 per cent in March but below the 63 per cent last summer. In the US, only 29 per cent expressed a positive view of France.
Large majorities in Western Europe blamed "mostly Bush" rather that "America in general" for the problem.
In France the figures were 74 and 21 per cent, in Germany 74 to 22 per cent and in Britain 59 to 31 per cent.