Her latest action, now supplemented by calls for a boycott of British goods by Argentineans, will raise an intriguing dilemma for tour companies.

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Should they fail, the trust's chairman is threatening to campaign for a boycott of all British products in Kenya.

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Her British defence lawyer Iain Edwards said the boycott came after a rebel colonel was interrupted while accusing the Rwandan intelligence services of offering money to rebels to make false claims against Ms Ingabire.

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But the United Nations' secretary-general, Kofi Annan, wrote to Mr Allawi, President George Bush and the British prime minister, Tony Blair, arguing that the attack could trigger an all-out boycott of the election by Sunnis, and therefore undermine its legitimacy.

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