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ifeminists May 27, 2003 Ilana Mercer	Women Who Wed the Wrong Wahhabi Roush is an advocate for women whose personal errors she turns into international political incidents. She is asking President Bush to intensify the pressure on Saudi Arabia to rectify the marital mistakes these women have made.
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