Hope this is not a dupe. Troops fire on Iraqi protesters, 24 dead
sounds like news to me!
AFP & AP
NAJAF, April 4. — At least 24 people, including four Salvadoran soldiers, were killed and 200 people wounded as Spanish-led troops fired at supporters of a Shi’ite radical leader outside this shrine city today, while two US Marines were killed in western Iraq.
Shooting broke out in Najaf after thousands of supporters of an anti-American Muslim cleric gathered outside the garrison of the Spanish troops. The crowd was protesting the reported detention of an aide to Muqtada al-Sadr, a Shi’ite Muslim cleric who opposes the US-led occupation of Iraq.
Some 5,000 people marched to the garrison of the Spanish military contingent in Najaf after hearing that Mustafa al-Yacoubi, a senior Al-Sadr aide, had been detained. Spanish troops in the area have said they had no information on Al-Yacoubi’s reported detention, and said they did not take part in any such operation.
In central Baghdad, hundreds of Al-Sadr supporters rallied to protest Al-Yacoubi’s reported arrest.
Al-Sadr’s office in Baghdad issued a statement later today, calling off street protests and saying the cleric would stage a sit-in at a mosque in the city of Kufa, which is near Najaf, where he has for months been delivering weekly sermons.
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