LETTER: Offended by link to cabinet minister

Mr Wafic Rida Said
Monday 10 April 1995 18:02 EDT
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From Mr Wafic Rida Said

Sir: There was a certain predictability about it. Among the columns devoted by the Independent to Jonathan Aitken in recent days, you could not resist ("Up-and-coming Tory with the right credentials", 29 March) making an entirely gratuitous and offensive allusion to me. I object strongly to your smear on my reputation as I do to your attempt to link me with a story which has no connection with me at all.

Independent? Of the truth, certainly.

Yours faithfully,

WAFIC RIDA SAID

Monaco

31 March

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