Syrian teenagers protest in central Damascus in support
of Arab prisoners on a hunger strike for better conditions in Israeli
jails, August 23, 2004. Israel declared its hospitals off-limits on
Tuesday to the 2,800 Palestinians on hunger strike in Israeli prisons,
saying they could be treated in makeshift facilities behind bars if
taken ill. A top lawyer for President Bush's re-election campaign
resigned on Wednesday after disclosing he provided legal advice
to a group that accuses Democratic Presidential candidate John
Kerry of lying about his Vietnam War record. Benjamin Ginsberg was the
second person to quit the Bush campaign over ties to the group,
called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The Bush's campaign insists
it has no relationship with the group and has denied Kerry's
charge the president's re-election team is using such "front
groups." "I have decided to resign as national counsel to your
campaign to ensure that the giving of legal advice to decorated
military veterans, which was entirely within the boundaries of
the law, doesn't distract from the real issues upon which you and
the country should be focusing," Ginsberg wrote in a letter to
Bush. [more ]
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