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Karachi, Pakistan — A right-wing Islamic alliance kicked off its election campaign in Pakistan on Sunday by denouncing President Pervez Musharraf as a U.S. stooge and saying Muslims were in a fight with Christianity. Addressing a charged gathering of 5,000 supporters in Karachi, Maulana Sami-ul-Haq, a leader of the six party Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), accused U.S. President George W. Bush of deliberately targeting Muslim states like Afghanistan and Iraq. "It's a fight between Cross and Islam which has started with the U.S. attack on Afghanistan," he said. "We will have to establish in this election that we are against Bush...