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To: steve harris who wrote (228350)	4/9/2005 7:54:14 AM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571276

LOL Taro

To: steve harris who wrote (228350)	4/9/2005 3:59:44 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571276

Sorry, dude, the Iraqis are not loving you and Mr. Bush! ******************************************************** Iraq ; Iraqi Shiites in mass Baghdad protest: 1 Hour,55 minutes Ago [Iraq News] BAGHDAD : Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr demanded US troops leave Iraq and called on God to cut off their necks in a fiery speech to tens of thousands in Baghdad on the two-year anniversary of the city's fall to the Americans. "Oh God, cut off their necks, the way they are cutting off our necks and terrorising us. Know that in our unity today, you have proven to the entire world that you are against the occupation and all dictatorships one after the other," Sadr said Saturday in a speech delivered by one of his aides. Heeding the firebrand cleric's call, protestors had converged from all corners of Iraq on central Baghdad's Firdos Square where US troops helped haul down a statue of Saddam two years ago. With the crowds spilling out from the square that symbolised the all too brief euphoria over Saddam's downfall in the spring of 2003, Sadr railed against US forces in what was perhaps the largest Iraqi demonstration since the invasion. Police cars blocked off main roads in central Baghdad and two major bridges across the Tigris River that cuts the capital in half as thousands marched through the street, chanting: "No, no USA, no, no America, no, no to the occupation." Men paraded with cardboard cut outs of Saddam, US President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair with bloodied fangs and the writing 'international terrorist'.** "In our unity, you have cut off the tongues of all the people who are saying if the occupation left there would be civil war," Sadr said in his speech, delivered to the crowd by his representative Sheikh Nasir al-Saaidi. "There will be no peace and no security until the occupation leaves." It was an implicit jab at Iraq's designated prime minister Shiite Islamist Ibrahim Jaafari and vice president Sunni Sheikh Ghazi al-Yawar who have warned if US troops leave the country now there would be rampant bloodshed. Sadr verbally skewered America's president to the segregated crowd of men and women, waving Iraqi flags and red and green banners of Islam. "Bush, you said the world is safer now. Bush I tell you maybe America is safer but the rest of the world is more dangerous. Why are you dismantling the weapons of our resistance and you permit Israel to have nuclear arms. "Why are you waging war against Islam, and at the same time supporting the Jews. We don't want your security. We don't want anything good or bad from you, we want you to leave us alone." Sadr followers vowed the rally was the first of many to pressure the new Iraqi government to demand that US troops withdraw, but they stressed Sadr was not calling for a resumption of armed struggle against the US military. "We've organised ourselves now to continue these demonstrations until we force the government and national assembly to take our demands seriously and carry them out," Moayad al-Khazrajy, a senior aide to Sadr, told AFP. "We've received strict orders from Sayed Moqtada not to carry weapons and even if we're fired at by occupation forces not to respond. For the time being, our position is peaceful." Khazraji read Sadr's demands to the crowd which included a quick trial for Saddam; the Iraqi government make Thursday the second day off in the week not Saturday, due its association with the Jewish Sabbath; the Iraqi government strengthen border security; and the government respect the resistance and bring it into the political process. Page 1 of 2 News Continued to Next Page > keralanext.com