Never Ask The Obvious

The usual AFP/Yahoo blurbs below.

#1 failed to say if United bother to ask
about our POWs during the celebration.

#2 failed to say if Bush had any comment.
Or, ask what % of the prisoners were actually political prisoners.


Vietnamese student girls in traditional 'ao dai' dress hold white lotus-shaped lanterns
10/0404 at Ho Chi Minh-City's Tan Son Nhat airport, to welcome VIP passengers
disembarking from a United Airlines' Boeing 747-400 after the first passenger
flight to Vietnam by a US carrier since the fall of Saigon in 1975.
(AFP/Hoang Dinh Nam) - Sat Dec 11, 3:03 PM ET


An activist from a Myanmar pro-democracy group holding a poster of Burmese opposition
leader Aung San Suu Kyi raises his fist during a demonstration in New Delhi in 2003.
Myanmar's military government announced it had begun freeing 5,070 more prisoners,
taking the number earmarked for release since last month to more than 14,300.
Suu Kyi is not expected to be released.
(AFP/File)- Sat Dec 11, 3:03 PM ET

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