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Tue 09 Sep 2006Opposition would threaten prosperity, says AhernThe Opposition parties would threaten the country's hard won economic prosperity if they got elected to government next year, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern declared yesterday, as the campaign for the next general election began in earnest.Speaking in Westport at the beginning of a two-day meeting of the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party, Mr Ahern launched one of his fiercest attacks yet on Fine Gael and Labour.