arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

SOUTH AFRICA, 21 MARCH 2003 - 8000 school pupils from schools in Gugulethu, Langa, Athlone, Maitland and Salt River took to the streets of Cape Town yesterday to protest against Bush and Blair's War on Iraq. They were joined by an increasing number of workers from nearby factories. About 200 peolpe gathered at the US consulate in downtown Cape Town to protest against the start of war. A continous picket is being mobilised at the consulate, with shifts of 50 people picketing 24 hours a day.

The US embassy and consulates in South Africa were closed yesterday, in anticipation of pickets. Protestors are demanding that the US and British consulates be closed and diplomats from the aggressor nations be expelled. They are also demanding that South African arms producer, Denel, cancels its contracts to supply the US and UK militaries with weapons components.

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Abdel Benatta (depuis Rabat)
21-03-2003
Des manifestations de colère contre l'agression américano-britannique ont eu lieu devant le consulat des USA, à Casablanca, le 20 mars. Les Etats-Unis ont dû fermer leur ambassade au Maroc.
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En Egypte, des milliers d'étudiants et d'ouvriers ont manifesté dans tout le pays (au Caire, à Kafar, à Chikh, à Tanta et Hilouane) pour exiger l'expulsion des ambassadeurs du quatuor du mal et du terrorisme mondial: les Etats-Unis, Israël, la Grande-Bretagne et l'Espagne.

Les manifestants ont brûlé les drapeaux des USA en levant les drapeaux de l'Irak et de la Palestine. Les manifestants ont appelé à l'envoi de soldats arabes en Irak pour soutenir la résistance à l'agression bushienne.
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RIYADH, 23 March 2003 — While the US Embassy in Riyadh and the consulates in Jeddah and Dhahran remained closed yesterday out of security concerns over the war in Iraq, the British Embassy was functioning normally. (Arab News)

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Bahrain - Clashes have broken out for the third day on Sunday (March 23) near the U.S embassy in Manama, the Bahraini capital, between students, protesting against the U.S-led war on Iraq, and anti-riot police.
The police fired tear gas canisters at the nearly 200 stone-throwing
protesters, who tried to push their way to the U.S embassy, near Manama.
The protesters fled the site of the clashes under a hail of tear gas
canisters, while extra troops were called in to the area.(..)
Similar clashes took place near the British embassy on Saturday evening (March 22).
Protesters hit one police car with a gas cylinder setting it on fire.
The U.S and British embassies in Manama closed down on Friday (March 21) because of the ensuing tension. (Reuters)

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Bush to ask Congress for $80 billion
Estimate of war's cost comes as thousands march in protest

WASHINGT0N, March 23 — President Bush plans to tell congressional leaders on Monday that the war in Iraq will cost about $80 billion, administration officials said, three days after both chambers of Congress passed budget plans and authorized tax cuts without an estimate of the war's cost from the administration.
(Wash.Post)