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To: Ilaine who wrote (65179)	8/29/2004 8:36:02 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) of 793893

Turns out the Muslims feel the same way about head scarves that you do, CB. But they are more vehement about it. :>) "Command Post" Two French Journalists Kidnapped Over France's Headscarf Law By Michele The kidnapping of the two by the “Islamic Army of Iraq” has nothing to do with the war, according to Al Jazeera: …[T]he group demanded the French government should end a ban on Muslim headscarves for the release of the captives.The group referred to the headscarves ban as “an aggression and oppression against Islam and personal freedoms in a country alleging to be a country of democracy”. The two journalists, identified as Christian Chesnot of Radio France Internationale and George Malbrunot of Le Figaro, had been mising since August 21. Their captors, in a video released yesterday, gave France 48 hours to respond to their demands. The Islamic Army of Iraq is the same group that Italian reporterEnzo Baldoni last week. The group also earlier said it had kidnapped an Iranian diplomat and showed the man on a video tape aired by Arabic television channels. The group also reportedly killed two Pakistani captives in July....

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