10,000 Iraqis Protest Troop Deal

Hang Bush in effigy

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 21, 2008 6:49 AM CST

(Newser) – More than 10,000 Muqtada al-Sadr supporters gathered in Baghdad today to protest the US-Iraqi security pact that would keep troops in the country for another 3 years. The protesters hanged an effigy of President Bush from the same plinth Saddam Hussein’s statue was... Read full story »

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