Thousands were demonstrating today all over the country. Many areas in Baghdad were cut off today for security reasons and to accomodate the demonstrators, I suppose. There were some Sunni demonstrations but the large majority of demonstrators were actually Shia and followers of Al Sadr. They came from all over Baghdad and met up in Firdaws Square- the supposed square of liberation. They were in the thousands. None of the news channels were actually covering it. Jazeera showed fragments of the protests in the afternoon but everyone else seemed to busy with some other news story. Thanks to E. for sending me this link. Check out the protest here. <http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=5723>
BBC and EuroNews were busily covering the wedding between Prince Charles and the dreadful Camilla. CNN was showing the Pope's funeral. No one bothered with the demonstrations in Baghdad, Mosul, Anbar and the south. There were hundreds of thousands of Shia screaming "No to America. No to terrorism. No to occupation. No to the devil. No to Israel." The numbers were amazing and a little bit frightening too.
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John Bizwas wrote:
>In the last 24 hours, the AP shiftingly reported that the Sunni were told not to participate in what was described as a Shia/al-Sadr rally. The AFP, however, reported that the Sunni were encouraged to participate by BOTH sides (the Sunni leaders and al-Sadr's Shia side). The AP reported in the last 24 hours that the Sunni told their people not to go to the Baghdad rally, then it reported it was al-Sadr's people who told the Sunni not to go. Such crude shifts in the lies make them all the more obvious.
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