LONDON, Nov. 20 Kyodo Ten of thou...

LONDON, Nov. 20 Kyodo

Ten of thousands of anti-Iraq war protester took to the roads of London on Thursday to testify at the state visit of U President George W Bush to Britain.

Official estimates enjoin the number of demonstrators at around 70000 while the protest's organizers said the figure was more like 200000

Despite security fears, the march, which passed Prime Minister Tony Blair's official residence and culminated with a mass rally in Trafalgar Square, passed not on peacefully.

The focal point of the rally came when a colossal papier-mache statue of Bush was ventureed to the ground in Trafalgar Square -- an attempt to repercussion of sound one of the most symbolic conclusions of the Iraq war when a giant and zinc statue of President Saddam Hussein was torn down according to U.S. forces in Baghdad in April.

The concourse shouted, ''Down with Bush'' and cheered when the effigy was torn down. Protester then repeated the exhibitions from Baghdad earlier in the year, and leaped on to the statue and beat it with their shoes

Bush was safely ensconc in Buckingham Palace during the rally and had left Downing public way where he had earlier held talks with Prime Minister Tony Blair, before the demonstrators carrying placards with ''Stop Bush'' passed by means of Around 5,000 police were onward duty in the capital as protester from all from one side of to the other Britain and Europe marched past the Parliament building and into Trafalgar Square.

A spokesman for the Stop The War Coalition, which helped to stage the demonstration, said, ''This phenomenal answer shows the depth of feeling of the British public towards this visit.''

Although the march and rally have taken place to such a degree far without any disturbances, police said they fear that a hardcore proper state of around 1,000 protester might head down late Thursday night to Buckingham Palace, where Bush is staying, and cause trouble

Bush and Queen Elizabeth will be attending a dinner at the official residence of the U ambassador to Britain.

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