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Front formed to create public opinion against U.S.

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`U.S., U.K. trying to destabilise governments in West Asia'

Jaffer Sharief

Bangalore: Senior Congress leader and former Railway Minister C.K. Jaffer Sharief on Monday said that a people's front had been formed to create public opinion against the United States and Britain which, he alleged, were trying to destabilise the governments in West Asia and install their puppets, so that their writ runs in the region.

He attacked U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair for executing the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein brushing aside the international outcry against it. This was in spite of their failure to detect any weapon of mass destruction in Iraq on the premise of which the two countries invaded the country and captured Hussein.

The United States, he said, was destroying one nation after another in the name of combating terror and this attitude should be condemned by one and all. The Congress leader said that a public meeting would be held on January 19 at Shivajinagar Grounds here, which would be addressed by the CPI (M) polit bureau members Prakash Karat and Sitaram Yechury and the Communist Party of India general secretary A.B. Bardhan, the Asian Age Editor M.J. Akbar and Moulana Azad Asmi, MP.

A Samajwadi Party leader would also speak on the occasion. Asked whether any other Congress leader would attend it, he said already his party had condemned the execution of the Iraqi leader. The Left parties were the first to condemn the execution, he added.

The former Union Minister C.M. Ibrahim alleged that the United States was misusing the United Nations, which had its headquarters there, and it was time that the world body be shifted to some other country. The former Labour Minister Qamar-ul Islam and Congress MLA R. Roshan Baig expressed their support to the cause and said that a large number of people would attend it.

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