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| Protesters March in Azerbaijan Capital |
| 2005-06-04 |
| BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) - About 10,000 opposition protesters chanted ``Freedom!'' and carried pictures of President Bush as they marched across Azerbaijan's capital Saturday, urging the government of this U.S. ally to step down and allow free parliamentary elections this year. How dare they mention "freedom and President Bush in the same sentence???" The massive rally in Baku was the largest opposition demonstration in the former Soviet republic since October 2003, when one person died and nearly 200 were injured in clashes between police and demonstrators protesting vote-rigging in the presidential election. Paging Jimmy Carter... Tensions have been building steadily in this oil-rich Caspian Sea nation in the run-up to parliamentary elections set for November, leading some observers to predict that Azerbaijan could see a massive uprising similar to those that toppled unpopular regimes in other ex-Soviet nations of Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan during the past 18 months. And it borders Iran, and Iran's north western territories have a large Azeri population... [...] |
| Posted by:True German Ally |
| #1 A truly unusual use of GW's portrait, especially by moslems. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2005-06-04 21:45 |