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To: SeachRE who wrote (396915)4/22/2003 7:48:05 PM
From: American Spirit  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 769670
 
Boy those Iraqis sure are "grateful to be liberated".

"Shi'ite leaders say a million or more people may flock to Kerbala this week for the climax of the Arbaiin pilgrimage, which honors Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Mohammad, who was killed in the city 13 centuries ago.

Some pilgrims erupted in chants praising Islam and denouncing Israel and the United States, an ominous signal for Garner's reconstruction mission. "Yes, yes to Islam, no to America, no to colonialism and no to occupation," chanted a crowd of men marching in Kerbala.

"We are against colonization and occupation, we have finished with one oppressive regime and don't want another, said a protester in Baghdad, Ahmed Abdel-Zahra.