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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neeka who wrote (440798)	8/10/2003 3:35:00 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Well, LOL... the New York Times has an interesting definition of Sparse and relatively small. This is what the times calls "only a relatively small crowd of several thousand turned up" The crowd booed the local governor when he reminded them that Indonesia had been founded as a secular state. The biggest crowd pleaser was Mr. Bashir's lawyer, known as Mahendra, who came to Solo from Jakarta on a flight this morning dressed in casual weekend gear and then quickly changed into the all-white garb suitable for a religious appearance. "Some Muslims say they are Muslims but don't support jihad," he said, referring to religious war. "They are not real Muslims." There were shouts of approval. nytimes.com