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

To: tonto who wrote (685298)	6/10/2005 1:21:20 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

A "large and powerful minority group"???? They only account for approximately 20% of the Iraqi population and yet would be given a role of 31.25% if 25 are included to draft the constitution! The visit coincided with the announcement that the 55-member National Assembly committee chosen to write a constitution will be expanded to include 15 to 25 non-elected Sunni Arabs. A large and powerful minority group, Sunni Arabs have been alienated from Iraq's political process since the fall of Saddam Hussein, under whose regime they enjoyed power. cnn.com

To: tonto who wrote (685298)	6/10/2005 3:01:32 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 769667

IRAN: ACTOR SEAN PENN IN TEHRAN AS JOURNALIST Tehran, 10 June (AKI) - The Hollywood actor Sean Penn is in the Iranian capital, Tehran, in his new role as a journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle. The actor, who won an Oscar for the film "Mystic River", is in the country to follow the June 17 presidential elections for the American daily. Together with an interpreter, the actor was at a Tehran mosque on Friday morning, where he heard the Ayatollah Ahmad Janna ask the faithful to turn out in large numbers to vote in the elections scheduled for next Friday, to "make America angry." Many journalists have been denied the necessary accreditation from the Iranian authorities to cover the elections. In previous years, before and after the US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Penn travelled twice to the Iraqi capital Baghdad, where he denounced both the war and the Bush administration. adnki.com