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	<title>American Geologist Serving Life Sentence In Qatar</title>
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		<title>Dear President Obama  by Margaret</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 22:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear President Obama, 
I am writing to you on behalf of my family and father, John Downs, and hoping you will be willing to help bring him home.  I don’t doubt you receive countless letters from people trying to explain to you how dearly they need your help. In that sense this letter may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOW WE SEE IT: One Family’s International Crusade</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opinion, Pages 5 on 04/05/2010 NWAOnline &#8211; Northwest Arkansas News &#8211; Fayetteville, Springdale &#8230;
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS — Spring break is a time when you’ll find many college students on the beach in a warm place.
That wasn’t the case this year for Margaret Downs. The University of Arkansas sophomore &#8211; together with her aunt, Julie Van Woy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kin’s goal: Bring man home from Qatar jail</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following appeared in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette-Front Section, Pages 1 on 03/29/2010
By Alex Daniels
WASHINGTON, D.C. March 29 (Democrat-Gazette)
Julie Downs Van Woy cq ( on right) of Eureka Springs and Margaret Downs, a sophomore at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville protested outside the Qatar Embassy in Washington, D.C. the week of March 21. This picture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Write a Letter to President Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.johnwdowns.com/blog/?p=607</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear family members and friends,
My brother, John Downs, is not and has never been a spy. Qatar’s accusation is without merit and through a series of events has succeeded in convincing our US government to turn its back on a 55 year old American citizen. John Downs has an immaculate record free of any criminal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John W. Downs Defense Committee Action</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Credit: Edward Campbell Media
John W. Downs, University of Arkansas alumnus (Physics 1978 &#38; Geology 1983) is unjustly serving a life sentence in Qatar of espionage. Arrested in 2005 and convicted in 2007, John languishes in a foreign jail 7,000 miles from his friends and family.
Whereas all appeals to Qatar for clemency have failed, and family [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online news articles</title>
		<link>http://www.johnwdowns.com/blog/?p=531</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[State Department indicates willingness to pursue transfer treaty on John Downs case
From indybay.org
by Al-Masakin, Thursday Jan 28th, 2010 8:22 AM
MISSOULA, Jan. 28 (Al-Masakin)&#8211;United States Senator Jon Tester (D-Montana) in an e-mail to Al-Masakin this morning said that he has contacted the U.S. State Department about American geologist John Downs imprisoned in Qatar.
Downs is serving his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tools ‹ American Geologist Serving Life Sentence In Qatar — WordPress</title>
		<link>http://www.johnwdowns.com/blog/?p=402</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Gulf Times Newspaper published a public apology written by Dad (John Downs) today. Visit this link to read it. Never has a Qatari newspaper published anything written by a prisoner; Dads letter is the first.
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&#038;item_no=294795&#038;version=1&#038;template_id=46&#038;parent_id=26
Tools ‹ American Geologist Serving Life Sentence In Qatar — WordPress.
Thank you for donating to help in John&#8217;s cause






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		<title>Joe Stair&#8217;s letter to the President</title>
		<link>http://www.johnwdowns.com/blog/?p=379</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
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Dear President Obama:
Imagine your best friend for a moment. Think of the years you have known each other, the shared adventures, the insightful conversations, the feeling of knowing someone almost as well as you know yourself.
Now rip that person out of your life and put him in a foreign prison…FOR LIFE!
But please don’t feel too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to Gulf Times Editor</title>
		<link>http://www.johnwdowns.com/blog/?p=375</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;here&#8217;s an apology sent last year to Gulf Times, use it as you wish
Dear Editor:
I&#8217;ve been mentioned in your paper a couple of times as the American engineer being tried for &#8220;espionage&#8221;. It&#8217;s important for your readers, and the people of Qatar, to understand I gave no information of any sort to any foreign government. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March Visit to Washington DC seeking support</title>
		<link>http://www.johnwdowns.com/blog/?p=339</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Margaret Downs, John Downs&#8217; daughter, is taking Spring Break to travel to Washington, D.C. this week with John&#8217;s sister Julie Van Woy. The plan is to meet with Arkansas Senators Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor; and Arkansas Congressman John Boozman.
The Downs family is encouraging these officials to support their request for an audience with the [...]]]></description>
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