Shi'ite pilgrims: More protests
22/04/2003 20:17  - (SA)  

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Karbala, Iraq - Pilgrims in this Shi'ite Muslim holy city will stage more demonstrations against the US occupation of Iraq and against US-backed opposition leader Ahmed Chalabi, a pilgrimage organiser said on Tuesday.

"Peaceful demonstrations were be held today, others will be held tomorrow against the United States and Chalabi," said Sheikh Raed Haidari from a committee overseeing a mass pilgrimage underway in Karbala.

"We refuse occupation, we want an elected government that represents the people," he said.

The pilgrimage is to commemorate the 40th day after the decapitation of imam Hussein in 680 by an Omeyyad caliph in Karbala, 80km southwest of Baghdad.

The organising committee is supervised by the Shiite religious leaders of the city which hosts Hussein's mausoleum.

Groups of pilgrims here on Tuesday shouted slogans demanding the withdrawal of the US troops who ousted President Saddam Hussein.

- AFX

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