A website set up by the party of French President Jacques Chirac as part of last year's re-election campaign, has been bought by an American organisation and is now displaying anti-French cartoons. The domain name for the site, chiracaveclafrance.net, expired in March this year. It was immediately bought by another organisation and registered under the name of The Web Group, based in Washington DC. A Reuters report on Friday quoted the French newspaper Le Figaro, as saying the domain had been bought by USO, the United Services Organization, a "a non-profit charitable corporation... to provide morale, welfare and recreation-type services to uniformed military Personnel." The report said the domain name was pointing to USO's own site. However, things appear to have changed a bit since then. The site has now been pointed at one page of anti-French cartoons on the MSN site which are maintained by one Daryl Cagle; it is titled "Stinking, Lousy FRANCE." The page of cartoons has been called using frames so that the URL remains as www.chiracaveclafrance.net even while displaying content from another site.
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