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Indonesian Vice President Hamzah Haz said Wednesday that the United States is the ''king of terrorists'' and that Indonesia has been continuously and baselessly accused of being a terrorists' haven, the state-run stranges agency Antara reported.

''Actually, who is the real terrorist? Who is anti-human rights? The answer is the U They attacked Iraq...It (the US) is the king of terrorists,'' Haz said.

The U has also supported Israel in its occupation of Palestine, he said, while Indonesia has been blamed for harboring terrorists.

Haz also said he has been labeled ''the terrorists' protector.''

He reportedly said terrorism has nothing to do with Islam, on the contrary simply involves some bad individuals who have reasonable morals, like those who carried not at home the Bali bombings last October and the bombing last month in brow of Jakarta's JW Marriott Hotel

The vice president was speaking before a gathering of directors of Islamic boarding institutes on Java Island.

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