Sunday, April 04, 2004

Shias march against US in Baghdad from SCBBC

Thousands of Iraqi Shias have marched through the streets of Baghdad in the latest protest against US occupation.

Marching in protest - something no one could do under Saddam but SCBBC doesn't think that's important enough to mention.

The unarmed marchers, from radical cleric Moqtada Sadr's so-called al-Mahdi army, paraded in Sadr City, a mainly Shia eastern district.

Hold on a minute! You said there were thousands of marchers. How in the hell did you, a western infidel media reporter, manage to search all of them; especially the women! You gotta share your secret with the coalition forces.

"We are here to show the world our might, this army can be a striking force at any moment," cleric Sadiq al-Hashimi told Reuters news agency.

"It's a time bomb that will go off at a time and place it chooses."

On Monday, Moqtada Sadr's supporters held a rally in Baghdad outside the offices of the al-Hawza paper, which US authorities had banned after accusing it of inciting violence.

Mr Sadr, a young cleric based in the holy city of Najaf, has fast risen to prominence since the US-led invasion in 2003.

Huge crowds flock to his fiery sermons calling for an end to the US occupation of Iraq. His supporters have formed the "al-Mahdi army", aiming to provide security and welfare for Shias.



"Inciting violence", "fiery sermons", and "formed the al-Mahdi army". I'm all for free speech but you can't yell fire in a crowded movie house and you can't form armies in a war zone.

Remember, whatever these terrorist hope to achieve, they have to do it before the hand over of power at the end of May.

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