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Letter: In Brief

Simon Jakes
Wednesday 12 August 1998 23:02 BST
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Sir: Your front page of 10 August carries the headline "Wealthy Arab who hates the US" over a picture of Osama bin Laden.

Would you publish a picture of Binyamin Netanyahu with the caption "wealthy Jew", or a picture of Jesse Jackson with the caption "wealthy black"? I think not. This implicit racism is now reserved for the Arabs - presumably because we need an enemy and we no longer have the Soviet Union.

SIMON JAKES

Tonbridge,

Kent

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