Friday, May 30, 2008

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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epa file photo

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...
Read the full report HERE


Can you say IRAN!!!?
AubreyJ.........

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