Germans for the man with the moustache

Pro-Saddam demonstrators are gathering in Munich, where Donald Rumsfeld will address an international conference on security policy tomorrow.

The London Times reports that the State Department has warned Americans to stay away from Munich for the next few days. Munich’s mayor “dismissed the warning as ridiculous,” but the Times says that “the fact that Munich now counts as unsafe for Americans along with Iraq, Iran, Libya and Yemen has taken the Germans aback. Suddenly, they see themselves being edged towards pariah status.”

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