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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command

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To: bentway who wrote (4933)8/30/2004 10:32:39 PM
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French Hostage Seeks End to Head Scarf Ban

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By ELAINE GANLEY, Associated Press Writer

PARIS - Two French journalists held hostage by Islamic militants in Iraq (news - web sites) appealed late Monday for their countrymen and president to save their lives by giving in to their captors' demand to rescind a ban on Muslim head scarves in French schools.

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A video of the reporters was broadcast by Al-Jazeera television hours after France insisted it would go ahead with the ban when schools open Thursday.

Yes J Chris - it is only Israel that causes trouble with radical Islamists - open your blind eyes to the realities of the world. They are now after their French protectors. Why not - after all the Spanish caved - they think they can change the policies of the world. Yes J. Chris - you are a fool if you think it is Isreal that is the problem. Open your blind eyes! And I hope the Jewish people open theirs to the agenda of the democratic left!

"I appeal to the French people to go to the streets ... because our lives are threatened," journalist Georges Malbrunot said in English on the video. Speaking in French, fellow hostage Christian Chesnot called on French President Jacques Chirac and his government to drop the ban, according to the Al-Jazeera newsreader, who interpreted his remarks into Arabic. "
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