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2008-08-08 China-Japan-Koreas

White House press plane detained 3 hrs by Chinese

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Posted by lotp 2008-08-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Only three hours? Bush should have demanded much longer. And maybe he should have hinted that all of the press dweebs were muling in large amounts of illegal drugs...

Posted by PBMcL 2008-08-08 01:19|| 2008-08-08 01:19|| Front Page Top

#2 We screw with them, they screw with us, what's not to understand.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-08-08 10:01|| 2008-08-08 10:01|| Front Page Top

#3 If "custom of the port" is standard policy for foreign press coming here, it is a major security risk. With current terrorist threats for the Olympics, I think the Chinese have shown prudence.

Posted by Danielle 2008-08-08 11:15|| 2008-08-08 11:15|| Front Page Top

#4 I predict that this will not be the last time some of them are detained in China.

Posted by Darrell 2008-08-08 12:36|| 2008-08-08 12:36|| Front Page Top

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