Angry Arab: Picture This--Non-Sectarian Iraqis

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Iraqis protesting the sectarian separation barrier in Baghdad. (The sign says: "The Separation Barrier is American Terrorism"). (Reuters).

Found on Angry Arab Newservice

UPDATE: News story on the above. Link to whole story here: http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=36188&s2=13

BAGHDAD (AFP) — Hundreds of Shiites and Sunnis marched on Wednesday in protest at the building by US troops of a tall concrete wall separating their northwest Baghdad neighbourhoods, an AFP photographer said.

The protesters complained that the wall would promote sectarianism and demanded its removal.

Residents said that US forces last week began building the two-kilometre (1.25 mile) wall along the border of the mainly Shiite al-Shuala and adjoining Sunni-majority al-Ghazaliyah neighbourhoods without consulting them.

The demonstrators -- tribal leaders, clerics and local residents -- marched from one neighbourhood to the other carrying banners reading "No to the dividing wall" and "The wall is US terrorism."

The protesters demanded in a statement that the government intervene to halt the wall and ensure that the section already completed is demolished.