Iraqis protest over woman's arrest ..............

[Thinkerman]

This ****** really have a Death wish...

 

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US soldiers have fired above the heads of thousands of Iraqi government workers protesting against the arrest of a woman who refused to be searched by a sniffer dog.

 

The troops fired warning shots to disperse a furious crowd at a complex of government buildings in Baghdad that includes the oil, electricity, trade and irrigation ministries.

 

A witness said US troops had handcuffed a woman employee and forced her to stand in the sun for an hour because she had refused to undergo a sniffer dog search.

 

Dogs are considered unclean in Islamic culture.

 

Several people said the woman was carrying a Koran in her handbag, which had made her even more determined to resist the search.

 

There was no immediate comment from the US military.

 

Sniffer dogs are routinely used to search employees for explosives at government ministries as a precaution against bomb attacks.

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