(25 Feb 2006)
1. Demonstrators chanting, raising Iraqi flags and banners
2. Demonstrators shouting: ''With blood and soul, we sacrifice ourselves for you, Islam''
3. Various of demonstrators chanting pro-Islam slogans
4. Banner reading: ''The residents of Anbar (province) warn the government and religious dignitaries not to continue with such cowardly acts.''
5. Demonstrators raising banners reading: ''We condemn the sectarian drive against Muslims''
6. Demonstrator chanting
7. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Protestor:
''We don't accept the sedition that currently prevails in our country. We in Iraq, Sunnis, Shiite, Christians and Kurds, are brothers. We have no differences. But we would like to ask the top Shiite clerics why the Imam Ali al-Hadi (mosque in Samarra) was bombed?''
8. Demonstrators chanting ''All of us, Sunnis and Shiites, will not sell this country''
STORYLINE:
An estimated two thousand demonstrators took to the streets of Ramadi after prayers on Friday, to protest against the bombing three days ago of the holy Shiite shrine in Samarra.
Protesters called for an end to violence from all sides and condemned both the Samarra blast and subsequent retaliations against Sunni mosques.
"We in Iraq, Sunnis, Shiite, Christians and Kurds, are brothers. We have no differences," said one protester.
Wednesday's attack against the Samarra mosque destroyed the shrine's golden dome and triggered sectarian violence across the country which has so far left 140 people dead.
It also triggered a wave of reprisal attacks against more than 180 Sunni mosques, pushing the country to the brink of civil war.
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