Zeyad’s Healing Iraq blog reports from the anti-terrorist demonstration in Baghdad today:
We started at Al-Fatih square in front of the Iraqi national theatre at 10 am. IP were all over the place. At 12 pm people started marching towards Fardus square through Karradah. All political parties represented in the GC participated. But the other parties, organizations, unions, tribal leaders, clerics, school children, college students, and typical everyday Iraqis made up most of the crowd. Al-Jazeera estimated the size of the crowd as over ten thousand people.
You can find a list of some of the parties that we noticed there at Omar’s blog. At one point it struck me that our many differences as an Iraqi people meant nothing. Here we were all together shouting in different languages the same slogans “NO NO to terrorism, YES YES for peace”.
I spent most of the time taking pictures. heh, I really enjoyed playing the role of a journalist. Everyone was tugging at my sleeves asking me to take their photos mistaking me for a foreign reporter. Some people recognized a reporter from Al-Arabiyah station and they started taunting him. One old man shouted to him “For once, speak the truth”.
He’s got pictures (and more pictures), so check it out. This is the kind of thing that makes me proud to be an American.
Zeyad’s buddy Omar lists some of the participants:
- Iraqi communist party.
- INC.
- SCIRI.
- KDP.
- PUK.
- INA.
- Al-Da’wa party.
- Iraqi Islamic party.
- Independent democrats’ congregation.
- Iraqi democratic trend.
- The Iraqi Turkomen front.
- Iraqi Assyrian democratic movement.
- Iraqi medical association.
- Iraqi dental association.
- Iraqi workers union.
- Iraqi women association.
- Iraqi human rights organization.
- Iraqi farmers union.
- Iraqi independence party.
- And many independent individuals like us.
Via Jeff Jarvis.