Posted on 03/01/2005 11:07:38 AM PST by West Coast Conservative
More than 2,000 people demonstrated Tuesday at the site of a car bombing south of Baghdad that killed 125 people, chanting "No to terrorism!"
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More than 2,000 people held the impromptu demonstration on front of the clinic, chanting "No to terrorism!" and "No to Baathism and Wahhabism!"
Wahhabism is a reference to adherents of the strict form of Sunni Islam preached by Osama bin Laden, while the Baath party was the political organization that ran Iraq under Saddam Hussein.
The demonstrators also demanded that interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi step down.
Police prevented people from parking cars in front of the clinic or the hospital, where authorities blocked hospital gates with barbed wire to stave off hundreds of victims' relatives desperate for information on loved ones.
Provincial Gov. Walid al-Janabi said no funeral procession would be held in Hillah due to "security reasons." He did not elaborate, but police said they feared new attacks.
Authorities blocked hospital gates with barbed wire to stave off hundreds of victims' relatives desperate for information on loved ones.
Anxious for news of loved ones, they gathered around lists carrying the names of the dead and injured that were posted on hospital walls, screaming and wailing. They also went through victims' belongings, including identification cards, left in boxes nearby.
Distraught relatives at the hospital morgue placed the dead into coffins and loaded them onto pickup trucks, taking them to city mosques and homes where the bodies will be washed before burial, a Muslim tradition in Iraq.
Many of the corpses, charred or dismembered, were unrecognizable, stuffed into white plastic bags. Other bodies lay on the ground in the open because the overwhelmed morgue had no place to store them.
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I'll look forward to Dan and Peter's reports concerning this on their "newscasts" tonight.
Maybe the Iraqis are fed up with this BS?
Good for them.
Viva Bush!
Waitaminnit...
=^)
I can't believe that there is no law abiding Iraqi who knows where these guys hide out, and who could turn them in.
It's about time! Good for them!
Sad to see the exploding human bomb is losing it's romantic flavor....sniff, sniff.
The Bush Effect.
By George, I believe they have gotten the picture.
Does anyone know why they want Allawi to step down?
Surely they don't blame him---surely they know it is Saddam's ex-henchmen and al-Zarqawi and terrorists from all over the area---
These protestors sound like the people here that want to blame Bush for 9/11
Now wait a minute these are Iraqi's "minutemen" according to Mike Moore. I guess the Iraqi's just don't know what is good for them.
/sarcasm
I forgot to add that I know the article says that they are saying "No to terrorism"----but just cause they say no to wahhabism and such, doesn't have anything to do with Allawi, does it?
I am just afraid that some of the Iraqis have been programmed to believe a certain way, and trusting the Prime Minister is not one of them---
They probably want the newly elected PM to take office or something.
"By George,......"
Gives that phrase a whole new meaning. Doesn't it?
:0)
Hopefully, you are right---
Unfortunately, if they have been watching US television the last 4-5 years, they will get the impression that Bush is the one that has caused all of the problem in the world, BUT, the Americans that are fighting and dying to free them to gain the right to vote, RE-ELECTED the man that the media in the US as well as in the Middle East, a Hilter and the worst dictator in the world---
If they believe that, then they may get pretty confused about who to put their trust in, in a democratic-like political system--
So incredibly sad for those families. Brian Suits, a Seattle talk show host and Army captain who's been in Iraq for a year, reported live on radio about a similar attack months ago that he had been just a few yards from. He reported body parts flying all over the place and some bodies "just vaporized" by the suicide bomber.
It's good that the beleaguered Iraqis are finally turning against the Baathists and Wahaabists in public. Which is probably why Osama and Zarqawi are thinking about a change of venue, having warn out their welcome--maybe all over the Middle East.
yeah what is Al Queda thinking taking responsibility for this one
if they want to start a civil war, duh, you make sure the Sunni Baathists or just regular Sunnis get all the blame, Al Queda certainly isn't winning any friends in Iraq or the Shia community at large, the Iraqis know the score with Al Queda........
now if all Muslims showed the Wahabbis the door.....Wahabbis, the Ku Klux Klan of Islam, the Wahhabis, just a big a threat to all Muslims as to us infidels......
yeah I heard Bin Laden, whose own leadership pool must be desperately thin, was apparently according to credible sources summoning Zarqawi to get on the US terror project and abandon Iraq (esp since Saddam's half brother and friends were funding Zarqawi and are now unable to do so)
gee is Zarqawi the only guy with any ambition left in Al Queda or what?
This is real progress. A year ago the demonstrators would have been blaming America for the blast.
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