| It's four years yesterday (Mon 9th April) since Saddam Hussain's statue fell. Have the Iraqis had enough of our presence and promises to bring any peace, prosperity, or security?
Isn't our presence and failure to end the violence making people like Moqtada Al Sadr ever more popular in Iraq?
Jubilant Baghdadis who welcomed the US troops on April 9, 2003 now blame the rampant bloodshed and chaos on what even some of Iraq’s most senior leaders brand an unwanted occupation.
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Iraqi Shias burn US flags on regime fall anniversary
9 April 2007
NAJAF, Iraq - Hundreds of thousands of chanting Iraqi Shias burned and stamped on US flags at an anti-American rally called by firebrand cleric Moqtada Al Sadr on the fourth anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein.
Large crowds of men, women and children holding Iraqi flags and anti-US banners massed in the Shia holy city of Najaf shouting ‘No, No to America! Yes, Yes to Freedom!’
Some Sunni religious groups also joined the rally.
‘This demonstration is a friendly message to unite Iraqis on one commmon issue and that is end of occupation,’ said Abdul Qadir Al Daim of the Iraqi Islamic Party, a powerful Sunni bloc.
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/Display...ion=focusoniraq
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