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Michael Ubaldi, July 15, 2004.
 

Euro-fops they aren't:

Thousands of Iraqis marched through central Baghdad on Thursday demanding the execution of former dictator Saddam Hussein and denouncing Islamist militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Noisy protesters waved Iraqi flags, chanted anti-Saddam slogans and held up posters depicting mass graves.

"Let every fool listen, Saddam has to be executed," "No, No to Tikrit" shouted the crowd in reference to Saddam's hometown north of Baghdad. Protesters also shouted slogans denouncing the United States, Zionism and terrorism.

"Death to Wahabis! Death to Zarqawi!" shouted several hundred people in the heart of Baghdad's commercial district, referring to a strict Sunni Muslim sect based in Saudi Arabia.


Iraqi Kurds appealed for Saddam's execution last week. (The anti-American slogans are probably the work of Muqtada al-Sadr and his henchmen, reported in more detail here, the men annoying but unpopular and now marginalized.) So Near Eastern authoritarianism slips a little bit more. Iraqis — free Iraqis — won't back down.