2004 AD What Is This?   Where Are These People Going? 2004 AD
Do these people know what democracy is?  Do they want democracy and the freedoms they have been offered by the US-led coalition over the last year following the liberation of Iraq and removal of their dictator, Saddam Hussein?

Thousands of supporters of a virulently anti-American Shiite cleric, Moktada al-Sadr, are seen above marching through Baghdad streets.

Many were members of Mr. Sadr's militia, the Mahdi Army. They paraded through Sadr City, the large Shiite slum northeast of Baghdad that holds Mr. Sadr's power base. This is the militia's first major show of strength in months.

Some marchers wore black masks and many carried banners and pictures of the cleric and of his father who was assassinated in 1999. An American and an Israeli flag were set on fire.
Iraqis celebrate immediately following blowing up a security vehicle with four American contractors inside.  The Iraqis set the vehicle on fire with the men inside and then pulled the dead bodies from the vehicles, kicked, beat them with shoes, mutilated and dragged them through the streets, later hanging body parts from a bridge.