The Hindu : Arundhati Roy, Jemima Khan flay Bush, Blair

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Thursday, Apr 03, 2003

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Arundhati Roy, Jemima Khan flay Bush, Blair

London April 2. Booker Prize winning writer Arundhati Roy and Jemima Khan, wife of the former cricketer-turned politician, Imran Khan, have condemned the U.S.-led war on Iraq and said no one in the Muslim world now believed that this was really all about making the world a safer place.

Writing in two separate British dailies today, the two women said the economic ``outposts'' of the American empire had now been ``exposed'' and the "world's sense of injustice was growing.''

In an article titled `A strange kind of freedom' in The Guardian, Ms. Roy said, ``regardless of what the propaganda machine tells us, these tin-pot dictators (like the Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein) are not the greatest threat to the world. The real and pressing danger, the greatest threat of all is the locomotive force that drives the political and economic engine of the American government, currently piloted by George Bush." — PTI

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Arundhati Roy, Jemima Khan flay Bush, Blair