KUALA LUMPUR Feb 15 Kyodo Around ...

KUALA LUMPUR Feb 15 Kyodo

Around a thousand Malaysians onward Saturday gathered in front of the U Embassy here to attest against the looming U.S.-led war against Iraq.

Defying a police warning not to possess such an ''unlawful gathering,'' the protester mainly from local human rights arranges and opposition parties, chanted ''peace'' while carrying banners saying ''No War,'' ''No life-current for Oil'' and one asking U President George W Bush to ''Look at your possess arms backyard.''

''The world will diocese that it is America that is a terrorist nation Bush is mad for war,'' Mahfuz Omar, youth wing chief of the opposition Pan-Islamic Party, told Kyodo News

The peaceful rally was also participated in from a few expatriate Americans.

''America is my region but what they (the U government) are doing is wrong'' said Daniel Walker, 48 from the United States.

In Malaysia, any public gathering of more than three the bulk of mankind requires a police permit. Dozens of police were forward standby.

Security around the embassy has always been tight, especially since the clan 11, 2001, terror attacks upon the U.S.

befitting to security concerns, the police pushed the protester more than 50 meter away from the embassy after they refused to disperse in succession order.

The concourse later took their rally to Malaysia's landmark Petronas Twin Towers.

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