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To: Elroy who wrote (221250)	3/1/2005 3:30:00 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573740

Elroy, Re: and refuse to be boxed into the satanic Republican droid category, or the pot smoking, flower toting, Democratic hippie group! You clearly are in the satanic GOP droid group. Hippies abandoned the Democratic Party for the Greens 20 years ago. If you actually were a Dem, or a Green, you'd know this.

To: Elroy who wrote (221250)	3/1/2005 3:40:58 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573740

It's about time!!!!! gulfnews.com US report raps Riyadh for poor rights record Reuters & AP Washington : The United States strongly criticised the human rights record of its long-time ally Saudi Arabia yesterday. In its annual report on human rights worldwide, the State Department said that abuses and rights violations, particularly those directed at women, far exceeded improvements in Saudi Arabia. Egypt, Syria, Iran and Jordan were among the other countries in the region described as having poor rights records. The annual document said there were credible reports of torture and abuse of prisoners by security forces, arbitrary arrests and incommunicado detentions in Saudi Arabia. “The [Saudi] government’s human rights record remained poor overall with continuing serious problems, despite some pro-gress,” it said. Arab officials have said in the past they are implementing reform and complain US criticism backfires because anti-American sentiment boosts the cause of those who resist the changes. Among abuses alleged in the report, the State Department accused “religious police” in Saudi Arabia of intimidating, abusing and detaining citizens and foreigners. In addition, the government restricted freedoms of speech and press, assembly, association and movement, and there were reports the government infringed on individuals’ privacy rights, it said. The report praised a government-sponsored conference on women’s rights and the formation of the first formal human rights group allowed in the country. The department also said Israeli security forces abused Palestinian detainees and that conditions in some detention facilities in Israel remained poor. Regional problems The report also cited serious problems in Egypt and Jordan, both major recipients of US foreign aid. In Jordan, it noted the inability of citizens to change their government, reports of torture and other mistreatment of detainees and a lack of due process in the judicial system. It criticised Egypt’s use of military courts to try civilians, the torture of prisoners, and restrictions on freedoms of press, assembly and religion. The Syrian Government, which has had increasingly tense relationship with the Bush administration, “continued to commit numerous, serious abuses,” it said.