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Please read this email to find:

- Letter from former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark to  President Bush regarding the new authorization for U.S.  military personnel in Iraq to shoot looters
- Ramsey Clark will be one of the featured speakers at the  May 17-18 National Anti-War A.N.S.W.E.R. Conference in New  York City
- May 24 in Washington DC: Muslim Solidarity Day march &  rally

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LETTER FROM FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL RAMSEY CLARK TO  PRESIDENT BUSH

May 14, 2003

President George W. Bush
The White House
By fax: 202-456-2461
1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear President Bush,

The authorization to U.S. military personnel in Iraq to 
shoot looters reported in the press today must be 
rescinded immediately. Neither the laws of war, nor peace,  or any legal definition of "American Justice", authorize 
soldiers, or police to shoot looters. Any soldier who 
shoots a looter has committed armed assault if injury 
results and murder if death results. You must not put this  Iraqi blood on the hands and conscience of young American  soldiers.

During the racial turbulence of the 1960's, there was 
"Much loose talk of shooting looters." As Attorney General  I said "this talk must stop!" "If America has a conscience  we had best awake from this wild talk of shooting looters  and face reality." "Far from being effective, shooting 
looters divides, angers, embitters, drives to violence... 
Is this American justice?"

Deadly force, including firearms, can be employed only as  a last resort when necessary to stop a direct and 
immediate threat to life.

This new authorization to shoot looters compounds the 
excessive use of force employed against the people of Iraq  by the shock and awe aggression already committed. It 
means the U.S. does not respect the lives of the people of  Iraq and will use its armed might to kill them as it 
chooses.

Only your immediate action can prevent more deaths and  greater hatred toward our country.

Sincerely,
Ramsey Clark

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Ramsey Clark will be one of the featured speakers at the  MAY 17-18 National Conference Against War, Colonial 
Occupation & Imperialism. A full list of plenary and 
workshop speakers will be send out in an email later 
today. For a detailed schedule of workshops and plenaries,  transportation to the conference, online pre-registration  and more information, go to 
http://www.internationalanswer.org

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Say NO to Bush & Ashcroft's attack on
MUSLIMS, IMMIGRANTS, CIVIL RIGHTS, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION,  WORKER'S RIGHTS

STAND FOR PEACE & JUSTICE
Muslim Solidarity Day
MAY 24th, 2003
The Ellipse (across from the White House)
Washington DC

Sponsored by MAS Freedom Foundation
(202) 496-1288
www.masnet.org

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 13, 2003
Contact: Mahdi Bray
(202) 496-1288

THOUSANDS TO PROTEST BUSH ATTACK ON
MUSLIMS, IMMIGRANTS, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND CIVIL LIBERTIES

(Washington, DC) -- Thousands are expected to come to the  nation's capital on May 24th to protest the Bush-Ashcroft  policy of discrimination and persecution of Muslims and 
immigrants, and its blatant attack on the civil rights and  civil liberties and domestic and international 
tranquility. The march and rally, called Muslim Solidarity  Day for Justice and peace, sponsored by Muslim American  Society Freedom Foundation, America's largest Muslim 
grassroots organization, will commence at 12 noon at The  Ellipse across from the White House.

The group will be joined by many peace, justice, religious  and civil rights organizations and will include speak