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"Voor de derde dag op rij werd er in Irak geprotesteerd tegen de Amerikaanse kolonisatie, het leger probeert te verhinderen dat de media dit filmen."

"US forces yesterday tried to stop the media from covering a third day of anti-American protests by Iraqis outside a hotel housing a US operations base, according to a reporter at the scene.

Up to 300 Iraqis gathered outside the Palestine Hotel to express rage at what they said was the US failure to restore order after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime.

For the first time, visibly angered US military officials sought to distance the media from the protest, moving reporters and cameras about 30 metres from the barbed-wired entrance to the hotel.

"We want you to pull back to the back of the hotel because they (the Iraqis) are only performing because the media are here," said a marines colonel who would not give his first name or title."

Als ik onderstaand uittreksel uit een artikel mag geloven, dan klopt dat wel degelijk: een massabetoging tegen de bezetter...


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Earlier Tuesday morning, some 20,000 people marched though Nasiriyah, chanting: "Yes to freedom... Yes to Islam... No to America, No to Saddam." They included leaders of the main Shiite Muslim opposition group, who boycotted the US-orchestrated gathering in the nearby ancient town of Ur to discuss forming an interim government.

The heavily guarded talks were attended by Washington's anointed ruler, retired general Jay Garner, and US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, together with representatives from Britain, Australia and Poland, which contributed forces to the invasion force, as well as about 60 handpicked Iraqis. Garner opened the conference, saying, "A free and democratic Iraq will begin today."

But thousands of people marched against US plans to install Garner and a token administration. "Iraq needs an Iraqi interim government. Anything other than this tramples the rights of the Iraqi people and will be a return to the era of colonization," said Abdul Aziz Hakim, a leader of the largest Iraqi Shiite group, the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq.

Ibrahim al-Jaafari, one of the leaders of al-Daawa Party, a Shiite group, turned down his invitation to the Ur talks, saying he opposed foreign intervention "exerting pressure on certain Iraqi opposition groups and favoring others."

Even some of those at the meeting said they did not want Garner leading the interim administration. "We will press for any Iraqi civilian administration regardless of what the Americans say. An administration by Garner is not acceptable," said Mowaffak al-Rubaie, an Iraqi physician.

"in nearby Nasiriya, thousands of Iraqis protested that they did not need American help now Saddam Hussein had gone." Al Jazeera

"No to America, No to Saddam," chanted Iraqis from the Shia Muslim majority long oppressed by Saddam, who is from the rival Sunni sect. Arabic television networks said up to 20,000 people marched." Reuters

Protesten in Irak tegen Amerikaanse kolonisatie. Indymedia.be

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Media wordt gehinderd om protesten in Irak te tonen.