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Show Sunday, March 19, 2006 DAILYYHERALD Anti-war protesters rally on third anniversary of Iraq invasion Paul Burkhardt | n Times Square, anti-war protestersrallied outside a military recruiting station, demandingthat troops be withdrawn from Iraq. In London,15,000 people poured into Trafalgar Square. In Stockholm,a protester dressed as the hooded figure from a photo taken at Abu Ghraib prison. Anti-war scenes were re- said Imran Saghir, 25, a Muslim student who attended the Lon- peated across the United States and the world Saturday as thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to mark the third anniversary of the U.S.ed inva- Britain, the United States’ “It seems like we are fighting strongest supporterin the Iraq war, has about 8,000 troopsin Iraq but plans to pull out 800 of them by May sion of Iraq Wael Musfarof the Arab The British militaryhas re- Muslim AmericanFederation addressed more than’ 1,000 wearing a President Bush mask must come home now.” Musfar said fromaparked flatbed truc Participants chanted, “Stop the U.S. war machine,from Iraq to Korea to thePhilippines.” have friends in Iraq and I just want themto knowthat I may not be able to support them there. but I can here,” said Jose in San Francisco dancedin the Protesters hold banners with namesofpeoplekilled in the Iraqi war, Saturday, in Minneapolis. streets, beat drums and carried Thousandsof anti-warprotesters tookto the streets around the world Saturday, marking the third against the war. Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler of the Plymouth Congregational United Churchof Christ saidthe signs that read “Stop U.S. Impe- anniversaryof the U.S.-ledinvasion of Iraq with demands that coalition troops leave immediately. “Most people believe we Protests also wereheld in aren't crazy anymore,” he said. Australia, Asia and Europe. but In Concord, many events were far smaller than organizers had hoped. In London, police said 15,000 people joined a march from Parliament and Big Bentoarally in Trafalgar Square. The anniversarylast year attracted 45,000 protestersinthecity “We are against this war, bothfor religious reasons and on a humanitarianbasis,too.” Holi N.H., nearly 300 As the 10-foot-tall pile of wood waslit. the air wasinstantlyfilled with poofs of After the ceremonyinside the ocal Bu neously, very painful to methat our countryis doing this and killing innocent people,”said 70year-old Joan Emerson, who at- as arally and marchto the U.S. Oneprotester was 1,000 demonstrators gathered sen withdraw the 530 Danish tended with the group Old Les- pis as the hooded figure protesters were expected in Protestersin severalcities worldwidecarried posters showingpicturesof President Bush,calling him the “World's No. | terrorist.” In Turkey, where opposition to the warcuts acrossall political stripes, about 3,000 protesters gatheredin Istanbul, police said. “Murderer USA,” read a sign in Taksim Square. In Stockholm, Sweden, about from the Abu Ghraib prison. “Wedo not need Abu Ghraib democracy, or Guantanamo Bayfreedom,”said Eftikar Hashem Alhusainy, addressing therally In Copenhagen, Denmark, more than 2,000 demonstrators marched from the U.S. Embassytothe British Embassy, demanding that Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmus- the third-largest contingent of each others’ clothes, hair, faces and arms. half an hourto get the bonfire going — butonceit reached its winter,” Caru Das, priest at the temple andfestival organizer, as they used the powderto coat Coste bling a pastel Willem de Koon- Asthe colored chaos ensued, it took organizers more than eM ial lee lelast ei & . AL OWE t P a tiien t S & said. | ir‘a ofa Soe of national Continued from Al Ina U.S.radio address the day before the third anniversary of E amiiliJES: Pa) c 3 2) a 25 ao 4 o c i) = ) x ny i) c c © oO : 4 ‘ fs Cancer Patient and Caregiver Educational Series This seriés of «re, high-quality educational classes is held every nee . Tuesday for nine weeks in Central Utah Clinic’s Radiation Oncology i ‘ Conference Room at 4ipim: Attendees mayselect one or more classes. Please RSVP to Shelly at 812-5466. Refreshments will be served. s Introduction to Disease & the Disease Process -March 21 » 4 p.m. Sesser, Sac’ Treatment Options: Chemotherapy bet ~ TemeSpon April 11 = 4 p.m. Cc 2° o S= 2iS Ss | Symptom Management & Pain Control April 18 = 4 p.m. open daily for free tours from 10 a.m.to 7 p.m.Forinforma- and the Iraqi democrats and condemn terrorists,” Defense Secretary John Reid told British Broadcasting Corp. radio during visit to Iraq. Members of the Stop the War Coalition, the organizers of the Londonmarch, hadlittle sympathy for Reed’s remarks. “Every day you hear of new _—_deaths. Tony Blair has actually made Iraq a worse place for the Iraqi people,” said Rose Gentle, whose soldier son Gordon,19, was killed by a roadside bomb _last year in Basra, southern Iraq. tion on Holi or futurefestivals, Krishw radio,the gift shop or vegetarian restaurant, visit www.utahkrishnas.com orcall 7 » Caleb Warnock can be reached at 443-3263 or cwarnock@heraldextra.com. ~#-}. the March 1 killing of Amjad stirred growing unease among the U.S.-British invasion, Presi- iya, andhis driver, the interim communities. In Baghdad, tives of the squabbling Shiite, isweretoundasashadowy Iraq's new partiament—were leading Sunnis. Onecalledit a needless “escalation” at atime ofedifficult negotiations over forming a broad-based governmentrepresentingall of Iraq's meanwhile, a dozen more bod- dent Bushsaid the violence in Iraq “has created a new sense of urgency” among Iraqileadersto form sucha government. Those leaders—representa- _-Sunniand Kurdish blocs in warof Shiite-Sunni reprisals taking a break from negotia- wenton. And Shiite Muslim pil- tions to observe Monday’s ma- jor Shiite holiday and Tuesday's Iraqi government said. The U.S. military reported that two 101st Airbornesoldiers werekilled Thursday by indirect fire — usually mean- ing mortars — at the Speicher operating base farther north up the Tiges. The deaths,which Loomis said were not directly _related to the sweep, were the secondandthird involvingdivi- Kurdish new year. They are deadlocked over sion soldiers on the day Operation Swarmerbegan. _tary personnel have died since how to apportion the most pow- from elsewhere as well: an oil ment,as minority factions seek tankerdriver shot dead 50 miles southeast of Baghdad,a tribal to limit domination by Iraq's Shiite majority. In the counter- expressed concern about “a greater degree of sectarian violence,” but said he did not believecivil war was imminent. Saturday; said Lt. Col. Edward S. Loomis, a U.S. spokesman. Seventeen were released after questioning, he said. sheik slain 30 miles west of the capital, a car bombing near a U.S,basein the northerncity of Tal Afar in which the suicide driver was the only casualty. Visiting Baghdad,British Defense Secretary John Reid Hameed,a journalist for the Iraqitelevision networkal-Iraq- erful jobs inthe new govern- killing one and wounding five. “The most-urgent need at the S fied, allegedly responsible for unity,” he said. Reportsofviolence came E foreigntroopsin Iraq after the US.and Britain. Britain's defense chief earlier urged demonstrators in London to support the Iraqi people and condemn terrorism. “When people go on the streets of London today, I do wish just occasionally they would go outin support of the United Nations,the Iraqi people The colors symbolize the flowersof spring. The Krishna Temple,8628 S. State Street, Spanish Fork,is of Karbala again came under attack, with a roadside bomb Pal Seoul, South Korea, which has dropsof rain began tofall. For the nexthour, the sky around the temple was filled with sparks andraindrops. The bonfire “is a symbolof the warmth ofspring banishing grimsheading to the holy city ® oo ie = ° troops from southern Iraq. Sunday,up to 3,000 Tl od www.heraldextra.com/yellowpages a, g shown in aniconic photograph full two-story height, thefirst air and turned a huge swath of earth into something resem- Asthelive band played,those ing painting. gathered screamed and laughed JAYME HALBRITTER/Associated Press Several thousandprotesters Colored powdersfilled the neon,asif a field of multithued mushroomshadsporedsimulta- temple, the crowd moved outside, following the papier-maché Holika, which was placed on anunlit bonfire. more and more unpopular,” bians Organizing for Change. peaceactivists marched about a mile from a National Guard armoryto the Statehouse. “I feel a huge sense of betrayal that | went and risked mylife fora lie,” said Joseph Turcott, 26, a former Marine whoservedin the invasion. At Dudley Square in Boston, a few hundred college-age protesters and baby boom- Continued from Al wore a homemadesignthat read: “Bush Lied! 100,000 died!” “It's a war basedonlies,” said McLucas, 57. “Weare gaining strength. The waris becoming rallies nationwide are a “tapes_try of resistance.” Avila. 36. King George, who wasequally imperialistic,” said Askia Toure, a poet andactivist and bearing fake blood onhis hands wavedto passing automobiles outside Vice President Dick Cheney's residence, where about 200 people demonstrated Many attendees emphasized that thev support the troops. “I a King Georgein the same way General Washington fought a Protester Susan McLucas ported 103 deaths there. More than 2,300 American troops have died. In Washington, a protester people who gathered in Times Square. “We say enough hypocrisy, enoughlies, oursoldiers ers waved placards that read “Impeach Bush” and “Stop. the War.” don rally insurgency sweep, through a 100-square-mile area of semidesert northeast of the Tigris River town of Samarra,Iragisoldiers and units of the 101st Airborne Division had detained about 80 suspected insurgentsas of Among those detained were momentis the speedy formation six people,not further identi- Atleast 2,314 American mili- the Iraq war began in the early hours of March 20, 2003. The security net thrown down by Swarmer,described _as the largest Iraq operation by helicopter-bornetroops in three years, has angered residents of the area, which was political stronghold of the Sunni-dominated governmentof Saddam Hus- sein ousted by the 2003invasion. The Iraqi Red Crescentsaid it 15 miles northeast of Samarra, sent tents and food to al-Jelam, _to help people driven from their village by the operation. 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