Hundreds of pro-coalition demonstrators chanting "yes to Iraq, no to terrorism" marched through Baghdad yesterday amid a huge security operation mounted by American and Iraqi forces. Led by the relatives of two policemen killed in twin suicide bombings last Saturday and protected by two U.S. helicopters and scores of heavily armed Iraqi policemen, the marchers rallied in Firdus Square, where a large bronze statue of Saddam Hussein was toppled by Iraqis and U.S. Marines on April 9 after the fall of Baghdad in the U.S.-led invasion. The march came one day after the surprise visit by President Bush to U.S. forces.
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Given cultural and linguistic barriers and with many sources having partisan agendas of their own, it's pretty difficult to know if there is any truth to this story. I would have rather read that thousands rather than hundreds of Iraqi's were marching.
However the following Iraqi blogs do offer positive spins to the story:
- Iraq The Model: I was there
- Healing Iraq: Yesterday's anti-Terrorism demonstrations in Baghdad
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