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NAJAF, Iraq: Thousands of Shiites carrying Iraqi
flags converged Monday in the holy city of Najaf for an anti-US
rally called by radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr as the war-torn
country marked the fourth anniversary of the fall of Saddam
Hussein’s regime.
Large crowds of men, women and
children, holding flags and anti-US banners, gathered in Najaf and
the nearby twin city of Kufa for the protest which is also seen as a
show of strength for the cleric who himself has been in self-exile
for more than two months, an AFP correspondent said.
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