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To: Proud Deplorable who wrote (17931)	4/25/2003 12:21:08 AM
From: portage	Respond to of 89467

Now that the Iraqis know that their American liberators want them to exercise freedom and democracy, they probably don't fear a brutal repression when they practice this. So they will probably just keep bugging the occupiers with a thousand annoying diversions until they go nuts and leave. This could get amusing. >>A prominent Iraqi Shia cleric apparently detained by US forces reappeared in central Baghdad on Tuesday after two days of angry demonstrations by his followers. Sheikh Muhammad al-Fartusi appeared aboard a mini-bus in central Fardus Square, to the cheers of hundreds of his supporters who had earlier chanted slogans outside the nearby hotel housing United States officers and the foreign media. US officials have said they had no word of Fartusi's arrest, but reports that the prominent cleric had been taken away Sunday had infuriated members of Iraq's Shia majority and threatened to fuel religious tensions.>>