Sunday, 11 April 2010

From Al Jazeera

Fall of Baghdad anniversary marked

Al-Jazeera reports (April 9th): Thousands of Iraqis have been holding demonstrations throughout Iraq to mark the fall of Baghdad during the 2003 US-led invasion.

Marchers called for an end to what they said was the continued occupation of their country by hundreds of thousands of foreign troops and military contractors.

Iraqi broadcaster Alsumaria said the tens of thousands of waved Iraqi flags, and trampled on US, UK and Israeli flags.

Marchers chanted slogans such as "yes, yes to unity" and "Sunni and Shia Muslims, we won't sell this country".

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/04/20104983512528239.html

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