Protesters topple a statue of US President George W. Bush during a ‘STOP BUSH’ protest organized by the Stop the War coalition in central London(AFP/Eva-Lotta Jansson)
Herald-Sun (Australia) reports:
LONDON Tens of thousands of anti-war demonstrators, shadowed by thousands of police, yesterday marched through the heart of London to tell US President George W. Bush he is not welcome in Britain.
In a theatrical climax, they cheered the toppling of a statue of the President in the heartland of his staunchest ally.
Throngs of demonstrators pulled a flag over the head of the 8 metre effigy and heaved it down with ropes, in a symbolic echo of the destruction of Saddam’s statue in Baghdad.
Then protesters tore it to pieces and stamped the remnants, Iraqi style, into the flagstones of Trafalgar Square.
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