ROME, June 9 (Reuters) - Demostrators protesting against U.S. President George W. Bush's visit threw bottles at police and overturned tables in central Rome on Saturday, witnesses said.

Police fired tear gas to try to control the demonstrators, television pictures showed. About 12,000 demonstrators, most of them peaceful, staged protests in Rome against the U.S.-led war in Iraq and the expansion of a U.S. military base in Italy.

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