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Anura blasts US again
SLFP front-liner Anura Bandaranaike, political adviser and brother of President Chandrika Kumaratunga, has castigated the United States of America once again - this time in a letter to US Ambassador Ashly Wills.

Mr. Bandaranaike was responding to a letter originally written to him by the US envoy complaining about a controversial speech the former Speaker had made in Ampara a fortnight ago where he said that the incumbent US President George Bush jnr. won his election by only 800 votes and that too by fraudulent votes.

He had also chided Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's recent meeting with the US President as a 'non-event'.

In his letter to Mr. Bandaranaike, Ambassador Wills is learnt to have referred to US support for Sri Lanka and made some remarks on the Marxist-nationalist JVP in what seemed to be a reference to the PA-JVP axis.

Mr. Bandaranaike in his four-page letter has cast serious doubts on the US helping Sri Lanka in a time of real crisis and blasted the US saying that they have proved to be the most untrustworthy friends listing out a litany of instances where they have let their friends down.

Referring to the 'warning' about the JVP, Mr. Bandaranaike has again slammed the US for having befriended and supported a long-list of the world's worst dictators - and then let them down.

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