SINGAPORE -- As the world awaits the outcome of another report by United Nations weapons inspectors in Iraq, and perhaps a second resolution (following U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441), war drums are beating ever louder in the United States, Britain and some allied nations.

War on Iraq would have at least a fivefold impact on Southeast Asia:

* Anti-American and anti-Western sentiment would inevitably rise, especially in the region's Muslim countries.