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.