Demonstrations throughout the world against the US war on Iraq
Regional-Iraq, Politics, 3/21/2003

Several world capitals witnessed yesterday demonstrations of protest against the war the USA started against Iraq, under expectations of observers of increased demonstrations to cover most parts of the world.

In Cairo, al-Jazira TV station reported that some 150 persons were wounded in the clashes between the police and thousands of Egyptian demonstrators, while demonstrations continued in al-Tahrir ( liberation) square in Cairo where students of the American university of Cairo gathered with other demonstrators who tried later on to reach the American embassy, but the demonstrators were confronted by the police.

The correspondent added that political and people's activists started a sit in stated to start until today ( Friday ) prayer. A massive demonstration will start from al-Azhar mosque to be attended by Christian Egyptian figures as an expression of rejection of the American war against Iraq.

Since Thursday early morning, thousands of students of Cairo university demonstrated inside the university complex denouncing the war against Iraq and calling for expelling the ambassadors of Britain, Spain and Israel.

The demonstrators also called on the Arab governments to announce "Jihad " and send Arab armies to Baghdad to defend Iraq and its people. The demonstrators burnt American flags and raised Iraqi and Palestinian flags.

The University's riot- fighting forces cordoned the University and hundreds of police men were deployed in the area.

A similar demonstration took place in London where the British prime minister Tony Blair is witnessing a difficult position under the escalated war against Iraq.

Meantime, thousands of Syrians demonstrated in Damascus. They chanted slogans denounced the US President George Bush whom they described as a war criminal and they chanted against the leaders of the Arab states allied with the US and described them as "traitors" and "worshippers of the US dollars." The demonstrators tried, uselessly, to arrive in the American embassy but were prevented by the police. The demonstrators were also prevented from arriving into certain Arab embassies, allied with the USA.

Just three hours after the American missiles fell on Baghdad, more than 40,000 Australians headed for the streets expressing their protest against the war led by Washington against Iraq in which their country is taking place.

Those demonstrators raised anti- war slogans. Some 15,000 Australians demonstrated in Sydney, one of the largest Australian cities. In Athens, some 80 to 100 thousands citizens demonstrated demanding the halt of war against Iraq.

Similar demonstrations were held in Indonesia, Jakarta since the first minutes of the American attack against Iraq. Thousands of Indonesians gathered in front of the American embassy in Indonesia and the Islamic groups threatened Washington of large scale campaigns of protest in all parts of the Islamic world.

Hundreds of anti- war partisans gathered in front of the White House as an expression of their rejection of the war against Iraq. They called on the American president to return back to peace and to stop the war which they described as "inhuman."

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