[iwar] [fc:Ali.Asked.to.Film.Public.Announcement]

From: Fred Cohen (fc@all.net)
Date: 2001-12-23 08:11:00

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                    Sunday December 23 7:07 AM ET
                Ali Asked to Film Public Announcement
NEW YORK (AP) - A Hollywood entertainment industry group is recruiting
Muhammad Ali to film a public service announcement explaining American
policy to Muslims in the Middle East, The New York Times reported in
its Sunday editions.
The boxer, who converted to Islam in the 1960s and refused to serve in
the military when drafted during the Vietnam war, has been asked to
film a one-minute spot designed to be aired on international networks,
the newspaper said.
Ali's spokeswoman, Jill Siegel, told the Times that Ali ``definitely
wants to do that'' but said that he was waiting for the details of the
project before making an agreement.
The segment would be produced by an entertainment industry group that
has contributed to the war effort, loosely called Hollywood 9/11 and
overseen by the Motion Picture Association of America, the newspaper
said.
The announcement would be designed to air in several translations over
networks like Al Jazeera, the Middle East Broadcasting Centre and the
Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation, but the stations have not yet been
contacted by the Hollywood group, the Times said.
``Ali will hopefully be able to convey the idea that Muslims in
America lead a free life, practice their religion in a form in which
they choose to practice it,'' Jack Valenti, president of the Motion
Picture Association of America, told the Times.
Valenti told the newspaper that the announcement's second point would
be that ``It's not a war against Islam. It's a war against murderers
who kill innocent people.''
While an editor at Al Jazeera told the Times that the network would
consider running such an announcement, Fadi Ismail, the editor for
current affairs for the London-based Middle East Broadcasting Centre,
said it was not clear his network would.

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