{"article":{"id":97074,"heading":"Iraqi's demand real democracy not empty Bush talk.","author":"ozzyteppics","created":"2003-12-13 04:38:26","modified":"2003-12-13 04:38:26","last_modified":"Sat, 13 Dec 2003 11:38:26","article":"

washingtonpost.com

Iraqi Protesters Oust Appointed Governor

Election Demands Pit Demonstrators Against U.S. Occupation Stance

http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A57791-2003Dec11.html<\/a>

By Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Washington Post Foreign Service

Friday, December 12, 2003; Page A39

HILLA, Iraq, Dec. 11 -- The demonstrators converged on the provincial governor's office on Sunday with banners, sleeping mats,

cooking pots and a simple demand: Iskander Jawad Witwit should quit.

After three days and nights of continuous protests, Witwit did just that. But the demonstrators have refused to budge.

As soon as Witwit resigned, the local representative of the U.S. occupation authority appointed a former Iraqi air force officer as acting governor. To the protesters, that was unacceptable. The new governor, they insisted, should be chosen not by an

American but by Iraqis -- through an election.

\"Yes, yes for elections!\" shouted the protesters, a collection of students, clerics and middle-aged professionals whose ranks

swelled to more than 1,000 on Thursday. \"No, no to appointment!\" ...

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