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Jordan Islamists blast Obama's dispatch of new troops to Afghanistan
Dec 4, 2009, 12:58 GMT
Amman - The Islamic Action Front (IAF), Jordan's largest political party, on Friday criticised as a 'hostile' move against the Islamic world the decision by US President Barack Obama to send 30,000 troops to Afghanistan.
'It is a hostile step against the Arab and Islamic worlds,' Mohammad Bozour, who is in charge of the IAF Relations with Arab and Islamic countries, said in a statement.
'This move also proves that Obama's approach is not different from that of (George W) Bush,' he added.
'The two men may have differed in rhetoric, but the ugly practices on the ground did not change or perhaps the US aggressiveness may have increased during Obama's rule,' the IAF official said.
Bozour regretted that the changes promised by Obama did not materialize and expected the US reinforcements in Afghanistan would 'deepen Muslim hatred' against the United States.
'We also regret that a Nobel Prize winner is turning himself into a warmonger,' he said.
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