A new Congressional-mandated study has determined that President George Bush is seen as a greater threat than Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden in several Arab nations including Egypt, Morocco and Saudi Arabia. The Advisory Committee on Cultural Diplomacy warned that “America’s image and reputation abroad could hardly be worse.” The study found that televised images of US policy choices — such as in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the invasion of Iraq — reverberate across the Arab media and will “long haunt the image of the United States.” The report, which has not been released yet, said that in much of the world the United States is viewed as “less a beacon of hope than a dangerous force to be countered.”