Third World people oppressed under postcolonialism

RABAT, Morocco - Mahdi Elmandjra, a prominent Moroccan philosopher, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News at his home in the Moroccan capital. Elmandjra, who had predicted the outbreak of the Gulf War earlier than anyone else in 1990 when Iraq invaded Kuwait, called the Gulf War the first civilizational war -- or a conflict between values -- and sees the Sept. 11 attack on the United States as the second civilizational war.