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

To: Captain Jack who wrote (15161)	4/19/2002 7:15:19 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

<:o) Japanese tourists try to visit besieged church Yomiuri Shimbun A pair of Japanese tourists were "rescued" by news reporters in the West Bank city of Bethlehem as they went looking for the Church of the Nativity, utterly unaware of the ongoing confrontation at the church between the Israeli Army and Palestinians holed up inside, local news reports said Wednesday. They were quoted as saying that they did not notice anything at all unusual, such as the streets being deserted due to the ongoing curfew, because they were preoccupied with reading a guidebook. A group of news cameramen, clad in flak jackets and helmets, passing near the church found the pair. When one of the cameramen pointed out the numerous bullet holes in a nearby building, the two tourists quickly canceled their plan to visit the church. The two have been traveling for the past six months and have not been watching television or paying attention to news reports during their trip and thus knew nothing about the situation in the West Bank, the reports said. yomiuri.co.jp

To: Captain Jack who wrote (15161)	5/16/2002 7:46:12 PM
From: Investor Clouseau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

Captain, maybe the President will go on Al-Jazeera. While they’re still not up to the accuracy standards of the major western media IMO, they’re still journalists. The Palestinian legislature is even calling for elections now, and even some Israeli’s are talking about a neutral Jerusalem. Some additional thoughts; The President coined the phrase “axis of evil”. General George Patton often made public appearances. The President has consulted extensively with our Arab allies. Only Nixon could go to China. And some humor; the Arabs started it when they invented the ultimate weapon against the west; algebra. They invented it 800 (?) years ago, and I’m still scared of it! IC