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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: joseph krinsky who wrote (12154)	12/23/2001 8:39:33 AM
From: Captain Jack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27722

joe-- we know Affy needs food, med supplies, & etc. It is also known they have 7K nutcases being held. Why have we not heard after questioning they have not been executed?

To: joseph krinsky who wrote (12154)	12/23/2001 11:26:57 AM
From: lorne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27722

Hi Joseph. Some good reading in those last couple of posts. Thanks. Report: Hollywood Group Asks Muhammad Ali to Film Announcement to Explain US Policy to Muslims The Associated Press Published: Dec 23, 2001 NEW YORK (AP) - A Hollywood entertainment industry group is recruiting Muhammad Ali to film a public service announcement explaining American policy to Muslims in the Middle East, The New York Times reported in its Sunday editions. The boxer, who converted to Islam in the 1960s and refused to serve in the military when drafted during the Vietnam war, has been asked to film a one-minute spot designed to be aired on international networks, the newspaper said. Ali's spokeswoman, Jill Siegel, told the Times that Ali "definitely wants to do that" but said that he was waiting for the details of the project before making an agreement. The segment would be produced by an entertainment industry group that has contributed to the war effort, loosely called Hollywood 9/11 and overseen by the Motion Picture Association of America, the newspaper said. The announcement would be designed to air in several translations over networks like Al Jazeera, the Middle East Broadcasting Centre and the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation, but the stations have not yet been contacted by the Hollywood group, the Times said. "Ali will hopefully be able to convey the idea that Muslims in America lead a free life, practice their religion in a form in which they choose to practice it," Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, told the Times. Valenti told the newspaper that the announcement's second point would be that "It's not a war against Islam. It's a war against murderers who kill innocent people." While an editor at Al Jazeera told the Times that the network would consider running such an announcement, Fadi Ismail, the editor for current affairs for the London-based Middle East Broadcasting Centre, said it was not clear his network would. ap.tbo.com