Citizens' peace-seeking group sends letter to Obama

TOKYO, Japan - A representative from a citizens' group of World Peace Now hands a letter addressed to President-elect Barack Obama to a U.S. Embassy staffer in Tokyo on Jan. 20. The letter calls for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq and an opposition to a planned increase in forces to Afghanistan.

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