Mahatir Calls Us, Uk Terrorists

Mahathir Muhammed who ruled Malaysia for 22 years before retiring in 2003, has said US and British pilots whose bombs killed Iraqi civilians were murderers and actions taken by those two countries during the invasion and occupation of Iraq amounted to terrorism. Several British and US diplomats walked out in protest of Mahathir’s broadside against their countries in a recent speech at a national conference in Kuala Lumpur on human rights. He compared American and British actions in Iraq to rocket attacks by Israel on Palestinians and referred to those countries as ‘these terrorist nations. (listbot2@ilaam.net)