| Date: | Monday May 19, @12:41AM |
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| Author: | ewing2001 |
| Topic: | Police Brutality |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3040047.stm
Monday, 19 May, 2003
"...Thousands of Shia and Sunni Muslims have marched through Baghdad protesting against the US occupation, and demanding a say in the new Iraqi government.
Up to 10,000 people gathered in front of a Sunni Muslim mosque in northern Baghdad, then marched across a bridge over the Tigris to the Kadhamiya quarter, home to one of Iraq's holiest Shia shrines.
The march - one of the largest since the war ended - shows how religious voices from the two main branches of Islam are getting stronger as negotiations for an interim authority take shape, says the BBC's Barbara Plett in Baghdad..."
"... The protestors also called for an interim government that represents all segments of Iraqi society and voiced their fears of a U.S.-installed puppet government...."
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/OBE305A.html
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