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10/18/2005:

"Mugabe uses UN forum to compare Blair to Mussolini"

Britain expressed outrage yesterday after Robert Mugabe took advantage of a United Nations ceremony in Rome to compare Tony Blair to Italy's wartime dictator, Benito Mussolini. Departing from his prepared text at the 60th anniversary celebrations of the UN's biggest agency, the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the Zimbabwean leader described the prime minister and the US president, George Bush, as "international terrorists".

He also denounced their invasion of Iraq, saying they were "the two unholy men of our millennium who, in the same way as Hitler and Mussolini formed [an] unholy alliance, formed an alliance to attack an innocent country".
guardian.co.uk