IRAQ: CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST THREAT OF ATTACK BY U.S.

Record ID: 355726

  • Title: IRAQ: CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST THREAT OF ATTACK BY U.S.
  • Date: 14th January 2003
  • Summary: (U3) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JANUARY 14, 2003)(REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS: IRAQI CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM RELIGIOUS MEN WALKING TOWARDS THE UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP); YOUNG PEOPLE HOLDING PICTURES OF IRAQI PRESIDENT SADDAM HUSSEIN; DEMONSTRATORS GATHERING OUTSIDE UNDP (10 SHOTS) 1.17 2. TV/MV: MUSLIM AND CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS MEN GETTING INTO THE UNDP
  • Embargoed: 29th January 2003 12:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVAD2LH3WP1XOPI1VY3ZPHT3IBD5
  • Story Text: About 4000 Iraqi Christians and Muslims have taken to
    the streets of Baghdad to protest against the threat of war on
    their country.



    Iraqi Muslims and Christian clergymen have taken to the
    to the streets of downtown of Baghdad on Tuesday (January 14, 2003),
    heading to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),
    protesting continued American threats of war against their
    country.

    "They are unjustifiable threats, it is tyrannous
    aggression, never witnessed before by mankind, it is a mere
    love for launching aggression, it is a love for revenge and
    harm, there is no justification for the aggression, the
    inspectors were unable to prove that Iraq has something
    (weapons of mass destruction) deserving such build-up for
    fighting Iraq," Sheikh Abdul-Ghafour said as he stood rallying
    the crowds.

    The demonstrators, who raised banners calling for stopping
    threats and war, condemned the threats of war as provocative
    acts aiming at destabilising the region.

    U.N. arms experts have inspected at least six suspect
    sites in Iraq as a hunt for alleged banned weapons widened
    after the United States and Britain supplied the inspectors
    with new intelligence.

    Iraqi officials said inspection teams ended their seventh
    week of searches by swooping on sites that included a missile
    engine testing plant, a military depot and a state company
    based inside a complex housing Iraq's own disarmament
    monitoring body, the National Monitoring Directorate.

    Chief U.N. inspector Hans Blix said on Monday (January 13)
    his teams were casting their net for weapons of mass
    destruction in Iraq more widely thanks to new U.S. and British
    intelligence information.
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