*“Protests against U.S. actions in Iraq continued Tuesday in the streets of Baghdad with some 3,000 Muslim religious students demanding the release of a Shiite cleric rounded up by U.S. occupation forces last weekend.”–UPI. Sheik Jassem al-Saedi was arrested by US troops on Sunday. The crowds also chanted against the US decision not to hold a leadership convention in July.
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