Monday, November 24, 2008

16 arrested for distributing cleric's leaflet in Iraq

This is from aswataliraq.
Not only is it illegal apparently to ask Obama to end the occupation but also to ask for the text of the SOFA agreement so that the public would know what it contained. Great democratic leap forward!

16 arrested in Kut for distributing cleric’s leaflet
November 23, 2008 - 06:23:38

WASSIT / Aswat al-Iraq: An Iraqi force arrested 16 persons in central Kut city while they were handing out a release issued by Shiite cleric Sayyid Mahmoud al-Hassani al-Sarkhi, a security source from Wassit province said on Sunday.

“The release, which was about the Iraqi-U.S. security pact, contained a demand to the U.S. president-elect to end the occupation in Iraq,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq.

“It also demands Iraqi officials to release the pact to the public to enable them to learn about its details,” he added.

Kut, the capital city of Wassit province, lies 180 km southeast of Baghdad.

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