Sarah Barracuda

You know those foreigners that Barack Obama wants us to emulate? Well, it turns out they ain't so bright, after all. More than half of them don't think Al-Qaeda was responsible for the 9/11 attacks in 2001:

The survey of 16,063 people in 17 nations found majorities in only nine countries believe al Qaeda was behind the attacks on New York and Washington that killed about 3,000 people in 2001.

U.S. officials squarely blame al Qaeda, whose leader Osama bin Laden has boasted of organizing the suicide attacks by his followers using hijacked commercial airliners.

On average, 46 percent of those surveyed said al Qaeda was responsible, 15 percent said the U.S. government, 7 percent said Israel and 7 percent said some other perpetrator. One in four people said they did not know who was behind the attacks.

I'm just glad we have big oceans on two sides to keep this kind of nuttiness away. If more than half of the world's non-Americans are 'Truther' nutcases, it's just as well we ignore that other thing they want.

A global poll finds foreigners want Obama to win:

US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama may be struggling to nudge ahead of his Republican rival in polls at home, but people across the world want him in the White House, a BBC poll said.

All 22 countries covered in the poll would prefer to see Senator Obama elected US president ahead of Republican John McCain.

Good thing they don't get to vote!