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Posted on: Feb. 10th, 2006 - icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk

CBI director general Sir Digby Jones last night stepped up his vitriolic attack on America, saying it was time to abandon the special relationship.

Speaking at the Birmingham Law Society President's Dinner, Sir Digby said it was time for the "ending of a myth". Two issues in particular have upset him.

He was bitterly critical over a decision this week by George Bush to cancel a £1.36 billion contract for a second engine which Rolls-Royce and US firm General Electric were to have developed for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

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