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30 injured in Kashmir protests over Saddam execution
2007-01-06
SRINAGAR, India - Thirty people were injured on Friday when protesters, angered over the execution of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, clashed with police in Indian Kashmir, police said.

Muslim youts youths poured into the streets of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, at over a dozen places after Friday prayers and clashed with police who tried to stop them from marching. They were chanting “Saddam lives in our hearts” and “down with America”.
Anytime you guys want to imitate Sammy's last swing, go right ahead.
Police fired rubber bullets, teargas and used batons to disperse the protesters, who retreated into narrow lanes and hurled stones at police. “At least 30 people, including 10 policemen, were wounded in the clashes,” a police spokesman said.

Several thousand Muslims in the northern town of Sopore also took to the streets after Friday prayers and chanted anti-US and pro-Islamic slogans, the spokesman said.

Most shops and businesses were also shut in Srinagar, as traders held a strike to protest last weekÂ’s execution. The strike closed down SrinagarÂ’s main business centre, Lal Chowk, and its adjoining areas. Shops were also closed in many other parts of Srinagar.

The Indian government, which had warm ties with Saddam’s regime, has said it was “disappointed” by the execution.
I'm disappointed with their disappointment.
Posted by:Steve White

#1  "Saddam lives in our hearts"?

Kashmiri muslims didn't live in his. Saddam Hussein supported India's position on Kashmir at OIC meetings and at the UN.

When Indira Gandhi was voted out of office, Saddam, not fully understanding democratic regime change, offered her a home in exile in Bagdad, calling her his "big sister".

But he was muslim, they are muslim and anti-US so imconvenient facts should not get in the way of brotherly islamic support.
Posted by: john   2007-01-06 16:01  

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