Iraq: On Ground Updates - Friday, May 30, 2008

Iraq On Ground Updates
Shiite Cleric Moqtada al-Sadr Supporters...
Protest Against US Military Long-term Deal
Friday, May 30, 2008

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AFG.Google.com brings us this report...
Thousands of supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr demonstrated in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq after Friday prayers to denounce a government deal with Washington on US troop levels... Followers of the anti-US cleric brandished placards outside mosques in their Sadr City Shiite stronghold in the capital as security forces stepped up their presence there... A key member of the Sadrist movement, Sheikh Mohannad Al-Gazawi, denounced the proposed deal that will extend the US troop presence in Iraq beyond 2008... "This agreement binds Iraq and gives 99 percent of the country to America," he said...
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