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Official Iranian Paper to Run Holocaust Cartoons

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Posted on Feb 7, 2006

The Tehran city council-owned newspaper says it is testing the West’s arguments about freedom of expression. | story
Meanwhile, Four Afghans are killed in cartoon-related protests near the U.S. base in Bagram—the first time violence has been directed against America in the controversy. | story

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By C. M. Baxter, February 7, 2006 at 7:54 am Link to this comment
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Perhaps future historians will refer to WWIII as the “Cartoon War.”

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