Holy Shiite Batman! - Hezbollah zeal grows in Iraq

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/15205822.htm

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Tens of thousands of Shiites, some burning U.S. flags and chanting ``Death to Israel,'' thronged a Baghdad slum in support of Hezbollah on Friday as protests surged against the Lebanon fighting in several Mideast nations.

In the most violent demonstration, about 100 people threw stones and a firebomb at the British Embassy in Tehran, damaging the building but harming nobody as they accused Britain and the United States of being accomplices in Israel's fight against Hezbollah, a Shiite group in Lebanon that is backed by Iran.

Even Sunni Muslim demonstrators took to the streets of Damascus, Cairo and Amman. But their numbers were dwarfed by the huge Shiite turnout in Baghdad, organized by fundamentalist cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

Crowds of Sadr supporters from across Iraq's Shiite heartland converged on the capital's Sadr City district, chanting ``Death to Israel, Death to America'' in the biggest pro-Hezbollah rally since the conflict began July 12.

Demonstrators, wearing white shrouds symbolizing willingness to die for Hezbollah, waved the guerrillas' banner and chanted slogans in support of their leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah.

``Allah, Allah, give victory to Hassan Nasrallah,'' the crowd chanted before burning Israeli and American flags.

[Bobbieo]

1. Democracy in Iraq??? I don't think so!!!!

[FlavaKreemSnak]

2. It is because they fight back against Israel

And in Iraq you have people fighting back against America. I know it is considered terrorism here to fight back against either one, but in the countries that get occupied the point of view is different. So they don't see it as terrorism but people defending their homeland because to us maybe it is just some foreign country that America or its allies have plans for what they want to do with it, but to them it is just like if some country was occupying America, we would not think we were terrorists if we fought back, even if everybody in that other country thought it was wrong for us to do it.

[Selatius]

3. Israel is just making it harder for the US in Iraq at this point.

We've already lost, but we're just making militant clerics like Al-Sadr more powerful at this point.

[Bobbieo]

6. And it is going to worse before it gets worse!

Will this insanity ever stop? I guess we will know in November!!!

[ContraBass Black]

4. Everyone who is surprised ought to get a good whacking with the

Idiot stick.

[Rex]

5. Fuel for the fire. PNAC is loving this BTW.

Everything is going as planned for them. Bastards.