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Political Cartoons Pulled from NY Newspapers

"Thanks to a wave of patriotism following the terrorist attacks on the United States, cartoonist Aaron McGruder's strip The Boondocks really has gone to the boondocks — and even disappeared — in some newspapers.


Last week, Huey Freeman — McGruder's Afro-wearing, pre-pubescent black revolutionary in The Boondocks — called the FBI's terrorist tip line and said he had the names of several Americans who helped train and finance Osama bin Laden, the United States' prime suspect in the Sept. 11 attacks on America. When the FBI agent on the other end of the phone asks for the names, Huey responds, "All right, let's see … the first one is Reagan. That's R-E-A-G …"



A full story is at http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/entertainment/ DailyNews/wtc_cartoonists.html



And NY Indymedia has some samples of the strips at

http://nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=127 16&group=webcast"