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Bush to Appear on Arab TV

HeadlineMay 05, 2004

In Iraq today, hundreds of Iraqis protested against the U.S. outside the Abu Ghraib prison. In an attempt to quell the growing controversy President Bush plans to appear today on two Arab television stations, Al-Arabiya and the U.S.-controlled Al-Hurra. Meanwhile Bush’s press secretary Scott McClellan revealed that the president still has not read the Pentagon’s internal 53-page report that detailed the abuse at Abu Ghraib prison. [[[* Read the full report*]]] On Tuesday National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice and Secretary of State apologized for what happened but Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld disputed whether anything done constituted torture.

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