Hundreds Demonstrate in Baghdad, Demand US Leave Iraq

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/afp/20031107/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_protest_031107143737&e=3

<snip>BAGHDAD (AFP) - About 500 people demonstrated outside the Baghdad headquarters of the US-led coalition, demanding that American troops leave Iraq (news - web sites) and free Sunni Muslims they say have been arrested.

The demonstrators chanted "USA, go away!" before praying Friday outside the coalition compound.

"We want them to release personnel from our mosques and to leave our country," said Sheikh Abdul Sattar al-Janabi, who wanted to be received by a coalition official.

Religious leaders wanted to present a text demanding "the release of Sunni religious people, the arrest of those who kill Sunnis and the end of the harassment of Sunnis by occupation forces."

......he is a link to a protest photo (I don't know how to post a picture)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/031107/photos_ts/mdf401390

[UpInArms]

1. wonder what the real number

of protesters actually was - they do that minimize thing whenever they do a count protesters here -

why should it be any different when they report from there?

[leftchick]

5. I am on the lookout for Al-Jazeera's take on this...

It will be interesting to compare the two versions....

[Minstrel Boy]

2. Don't they have free speech zones for this kind of thing?

President Bush, God bless him, means to democratize Arabs over their dead bodies, so someone needs to start erecting barricades pronto.



:crazy:

[qanda]

3. Yeah...

Looks like 500 to me :eyes:

[northernsoul]

4. looks like we're headed for a long weekend in 'Raq

I hope I'm wrong, but my guess is that the downed Blackhawk is just the opening act for the show the Guerillas are going to put on this weekend.

[Barrett808]

6. Another photo

Angry Iraqis demonstrate behind a wall of smoke from buring tires in Baghdad. About 500 people demonstrated in the Iraqi capital outside the headquarters of the US-led coalition.(AFP/File/Marwan Naamani)

(http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/031107/photos_wl_me_afp/031107143737_hvrpigy1_photo0)

[drfemoe]

7. I wish they would quit burning tires

that is so much pollution they certainly don't need. ...