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To: AK2004 who wrote (279553)	3/10/2006 2:31:39 PM
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To: AK2004 who wrote (279553)	3/10/2006 5:07:19 PM
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Anti-Castro Sign at Ballgame Causes Stir Mar 10 2006 By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press Writer SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico 6f09d0b8badf@news.ap.org While Cuba played the Netherlands in the World Baseball Classic, a spectator in the stands raised a sign saying: "Down with Fidel," sparking an international incident that escalated Friday with the velocity of a major league fastball. The image of the man holding the sign behind home plate was beamed live Thursday night to millions of TV viewers _ including those in Cuba. The top Cuban official at the game at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan rushed to confront the man. Puerto Rican police quickly intervened and took the Cuban official _ Angel Iglesias, vice president of Cuba's National Institute of Sports _ to a nearby police station, where they lectured him about free speech. "We explained to him that here the constitutional right to free expression exists and that it is not a crime," police Col. Adalberto Mercado was quoted as saying in El Nuevo Dia, a San Juan daily. The brouhaha gathered steam Friday when Cuba's Communist Party newspaper, Granma, called the sign-waving "a cowardly incident." Cuba's Revolutionary Sports Movement exhorted Cubans to demonstrate in Havana late Friday, saying U.S. and Puerto Rican authorities were involved in "the cynical counterrevolutionary provocations." An anti-Castro Web site, therealcuba.com, identified the protester only as Enrique, and carried his own account of the incident. Enrique said that during the warmup before the game, he flashed another sign denouncing Castro _ this one saying "Baseball players yes, Tyrants no" _ to the Cuban leader's son, Tony Castro, who is the Cuban team doctor. "He looked down and kept walking and I shouted, 'Eso es para tu papa ('That is for your dad').' ... I know he heard that," Enrique said, according to the account in the Web site. Mercado said the spectator, and a second one who also waved signs, had tickets for the section behind home plate, but had moved out of their seats so their signs would appear on TV. Cuban state TV was showing the ESPN signal, and the signs were briefly visible on television in Cuba. Police later told the pair to return to their seats, Mercado said, adding that Iglesias was never under arrest. "The Cubans were upset with the incident that happened last night, and they want to make sure it doesn't happen again," said John Blundell, spokesman for Major League Baseball, which helped establish the tournament. "We are doing everything that we can to ensure the safety of fans and the delegations." Cuba downed the Netherlands 11-2. Cuba has also beat Panama in the first round of competition and was playing Puerto Rico Friday night. __ Associated Press writer Anita Snow in Havana, Cuba contributed to this report.

To: AK2004 who wrote (279553)	3/11/2006 11:26:38 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 1583503

IMAM DISHES SOME HOLY BALONEY The New York Post ^ \| March 11, 2006 \| By NILES LATHEM and JOHN MAZOR March 11, 2006 -- The city's Muslim prison chaplain suspended for making extremist remarks compared himself to Jesus, Moses and Mohammed yesterday in an indignant defense of his actions to worshippers at his mosque. The sermon came a day after Mayor Bloomberg placed the ex-con preacher on administrative leave from his $76,000-a-year job as chief of ministerial services at the Department of Correction. Imam Umar Abdul-Jalil struck a defiant and angry tone during prayers at his Masjidus Sabur mosque in Harlem. In his hour-long address, Abdul-Jalil slammed "slander-mongers and hatemongers [who] come looking for controversy." "I'm willing to bet that if Moses, Jesus and the Prophet Mohammed were living in this time, in this world, they would probably put them in jail, saying they were sowing dissention and creating sedition," Abdul-Jalil said. "Whatever you see written, I can bet my soul on it that it's nothing but lies and fabrications, innuendo and an attempt to slander somebody's character, and people's attempt to try and pull African-Americans into some of this political foolishness," added Abdul-Jalil, who plans a press conference tomorrow. Bloomberg and other top city officials continued to wrestle with what to do about Abdul-Jalil, a 56-year-old father of three who has been working in the city prison system since 1993 and was promoted to head minister in 2004 (Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...