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Saturday, October 21, 2006

U.S. official criticizes French law

"U.S. official criticizes French law

By STEVEN ROSS JOHNSON
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- A senior U.S. official denounced on Friday a French bill that would make it a crime to deny the killings of Armenians in Turkey during World War I was a genocide.

Turkey denies allegations that Turkey was responsible for the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians during the war, contending that many died as a result of fighting during the fall of the Ottoman Empire."

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