Shiites Protest Suicide Blast in Baghdad (Angry With Jordan)

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - More than 2,000 Shiites marched Friday through Baghdad, with some breaking into the Jordanian Embassy and raising the Iraqi flag atop it, to protest the alleged involvement of a Jordanian in Iraq (news - web sites)'s single deadliest suicide bombing — a Feb. 28 attack south of Baghdad that killed 125 people.

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Shiites have staged smaller protests in recent days after the Iraqi government Monday condemned celebrations allegedly held by the family of a Jordanian man suspected of carrying out the Feb. 28 attack in Hillah. Nearly all the victims were Shiite police and army recruits.


Friday's protest came just two days after an influential Shiite leader claimed during Iraq's first National Assembly meeting that Jordan allegedly was not doing enough to prevent terrorists from slipping into Iraq.


Marchers converged on the embassy after finishing Friday prayers, burning Israeli and Jordanian flags and shouting slogans against Jordan's King Abdullah II: "Take your embassy away! We do not want to see you!" and "There's no God but God, Abdullah is the enemy of God!"



Iraqis burn a Jordanian flag during a protest at the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites) Friday, March 18, 2005. More than 2,000 Shiites marched through the streets of Baghdad Friday to protest the alleged involvement of a Jordanian in Iraq's single deadliest suicide bombing, a Feb. 28 attack south of Baghdad that killed 125 people.(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

of a serious civil disturbance.

They are taking out their frustrations on Jordan because they have been instructed not to take out their frustrations on fellow Sunni Iraqis. But as we can see by yesterday's assassination of Samarrai, a prominent Sunna cleric, the hold these instructions have at the popular level is slipping.

Iraqis march toward the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites) Friday, March 18, 2005. More than 2,000 Shiites marched through the streets of Baghdad Friday to protest the alleged involvement of a Jordanian in Iraq's single deadliest suicide bombing, a Feb. 28 attack south of Baghdad that killed 125 people. Pictured on the poster is Mohammed Sadik al-Sadr, deceased father of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Iraqi Police commandos join in the demonstration at the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites) Friday, March 18, 2005. More than 2,000 Shiites marched through the streets of Baghdad Friday to protest the alleged involvement of a Jordanian in Iraq's single deadliest suicide bombing, a Feb. 28 attack south of Baghdad that killed 125 people.(AP Photo/Hadi Mizban

or do those last two photos seem to have a large number of uniforms in them?

I wonder if this "Shiite" protest against the Jordanians was really a police/Iraqi army/Iraqi commando protest...

so it's a two-for-one deal. A shiite protest and a police organized protest.

That's another reason the Sunni guerrillas attack the police so often.

would kill each other if given the chance. saddam didn`t give them that chance and now bush has. wwjd?

Shiite demonstrators raised the Iraqi flag over Jordan's Embassy after more than 2,000 people marched through Baghdad demanding an apology for the alleged involvement of a Jordanian in a suicide bombing that killed 125 people.

Friday's protest -- the largest in a week of mounting anger -- came two days after the leader of the clergy-backed United Iraqi Alliance claimed during Iraq's first National Assembly meeting that neighboring Jordan wasn't doing enough to prevent terrorists from slipping into Iraq.

A US soldier was killed Friday when attackers fired on an patrol in Baghdad, the military said. At least 1,519 members of the US military have died since the Iraq war started two years ago, according to an Associated Press count.

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