Katie Connolly
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Jun 7, 2009 06:50 AM
The White House last night released some interesting stats from the Cairo speech, gathered from their Embassies around the world. Here's a few things they found:
- 200 million Indians watched the speech in India
- In Sierra Leone, the Embassy organized for 11 cinema centers to screen the speech, allowing around 1000 residents to view the speech who otherwise would not have been able to
- Around 20,000 people signed up for the text message service
- The Consul-General in Sydney Australia organized for 40 Muslim leaders from various communities, including Indonesia, Lebanese and and Turkish, to watch the speech at her official residence, along with a Jewish leader. Sydney's ethnic populations are rife with divisions, so their collective presence at this event is encouraging