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Hu sued over `repulsive' bin Laden advertisement

NO GOODWILL An aide to the Taichung mayor said using an image of the Twin Towers being destroyed was a 'creative' way of criticizing President Chen Shui-bian

By Joy Su and Martin Williams  /  STAFF REPORTERS

A clearly upset Cambio said that the KMT-PFP campaign material was deeply offensive to him as an American and a Christian, and as a person who had ties to people killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the US.

He said that non-partisan organizations like his were trying to unite Taiwanese people through mutual trust and respect as well as connect Taiwan with the rest of the world.

But, he said, "just to sit here and listen to this is unfathomable."

Cambio called on the person or persons responsible for the material to apologize, though he also said that the use of this material so soon after the KMT-PFP alliance apologized for using Hitler in a similar format pointed to an absence of sincerity and goodwill.

A scan of the contentious poster can be viewed at:

www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/photo/2004/03/23/2003114861

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