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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (145355)	9/10/2004 2:07:16 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

3000-500 Now its clear to me. Do you think most iraqis might be too intimidated to oppose armed militias? Did you count the hanging chads--there might be more hanging iraqis if anti-sader folks demonstrate. Let me bold it up for you as in your post because you must think this so important an article.

To: cnyndwllr who wrote (145355)	9/10/2004 2:51:31 PM
From: Bruce L	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

No, but same incident. online.wsj.com Protesters in Najaf Meanwhile Friday, about 1,000 protesters marched through the old quarter of Najaf to demand that Muqtada al Sadr and his aides leave the holy city that has been ravaged by fighting between the radical cleric's followers and U.S. and Iraqi troops. Chanting, "Muqtada, the trash, is a leader of looters," the demonstrators walked past buildings hit by three weeks of fighting and insisted that Mr. Sadr's office be shut down. Iraqi soldiers kept the protesters from marching to Mr. Sadr's office. They also demanded that the Iraqi government investigate the practices of a religious court that Mr. Sadr's office operated and punish those in charge of it. The court, which worked separately from Iraq's legal system, ordered arrests and handed out punishments. It stopped functioning after Mr. Sadr's followers relinquished the control they had in areas here as part of a peace agreement to end the violence. Bruce