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To: LindyBill who wrote (54530)7/16/2004 4:15:52 AM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 793839
 
Thousands Protest?
Mentioned in passing at the top of the News Hour on PBS -

“Thousands of Iraqis took to the streets today protesting Zarqawi and demanding the execution of Saddam Hussein.”

No link to this item on the PBS News Hour site, no references found via print sources, quick check of several Iraqi blogs - no references. The News hour did an extended interview with the Iraqi Ambassador to the US, Anbassador Rend Al-Rahim Francke. Very composed and well spoken lady.

JIM LEHRER: How can there not be occupation when there’s still 140,000 foreign troops in Iraq?
REND AL-RAHIM FRANCKE: Well, there are troops in Japan, there are troops in Germany, and until recently there were multi-national troops in Germany. There are troops in Korea, and in various other parts of the world. Do we deny that Japan is a sovereign nation? Do we deny that Germany is a sovereign state, or South Korea?

I do not think that the presence of troops in the country undermines sovereignty. The Iraqi government is sovereign to the extent that it determines the disposal of its resources, of its funds, it determines its own political development. And it also organizes its relationship with the multinational force that is in the country. And that is what sovereignty means to us.

The rest of the transcript is worth a read.

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