Okinawa citizens protest e-mail remarks by U.S. officer

NAHA, Japan - An unidentified Okinawa citizen tries to deliver a bag containing nuts to a passerby outside the Okinawa Prefectural government office in Naha on Feb. 15 in protest over an e-mail sent by Lt. Gen. Earl Hailston, commander of the U.S. forces in Okinawa Prefecture, who called local Japanese officials ''nuts'' and ''wimps.''

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