Posted on 03/01/2005 6:01:11 PM PST by AliVeritas
HILLAH, Iraq — Thousands of mostly black-clad Iraqis protested Tuesday outside a medical clinic where a car bomber killed 125 people a day earlier, braving the threat of another attack as they waved clenched fists, condemned foreign fighters and chanted "No to terrorism!"
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.
The demonstration in this town 60 miles south of the capital came as the Shiite candidate for prime minister traveled north for talks with the Kurds about a coalition government and as the number of American dead in the Iraqi war neared 1,500.
Insurgents, fighting both American forces and the Iraqi government, released a video Tuesday of French journalist Florence Aubenas (search), 43, kidnapped nearly two months ago. The 43-year-old correspondent for the French daily Liberation appeared alone in front of a maroon-colored background, pleading for help.
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God Bless them. It's their country and they aren't going to take it anymore.
The Revolution is spreading.
I can feel all the thugs and cowards staring in dread.
Ted Kennedy has no comment. . .
Whomevers were behind the assassination of the judge today may be in for the "Mother of All Street-Beatings".
Oh no. This will just make the terrorists angry and they will lash out at the US.
The tipping point has passed now. This has enormous impact in the gathering of intelligence. Terrorists become persona-non-grata.
It's all over for them.
Ted Kennedy has plenty to say, and it all comes right out of a bottle.
Agreed. They got a taste of freedom and want more. They'll help us get rid of those tango's.
Maybe 'Dad' will be next as the children do a 'hostile take-over' - as they have done against their alcoholic Mother.
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