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The Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Bangla, a forum of Muslim clerics and intellectuals, on Sunday organized a march to the American Center in Kolkata, joining the world-wide protest against the US-led attack on Iraq.
Raising anti-US and anti-UK slogans, at least 5,000 people began the procession from the Shaheed Minar at the center of the metropolis, but police stopped them about 150 meters from the American Center, where they staged a protest meeting, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.
The meeting was addressed by Furfura Sharif head Hajrat Maulana Saifuddin Siddiqui and a number of poets and intellectuals. They called for a boycott of American and British goods to protest the attack on Iraq, PTI said.
Police said that the protest march went off peacefully and no untoward incident was reported.
(Xinhua News Agency April 13, 2003)
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