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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (45178)	12/10/2003 10:55:25 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Although the "Western mercenary" for Iranians extremists had no kind words to say about US.. Ebadi slammed the U.S. administration for double standards in ignoring U.N. resolutions in the Middle East, while using them as a pretext to go to war in Iraq. The audience included Hollywood couple Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, star hosts of Thursday's Nobel concert. "In the past two years, some states have violated the universal principles and laws of human rights by using the events of Sept. 11 and the war on international terrorism as a pretext," she said in a prepared acceptance speech. "Regulations restricting human rights and basic freedoms ... have been justified and given legitimacy under the cloak of the war on terrorism."