Angry crowds fill Baghdad streets In protest to Saddam's hanging By AP

BAGHDAD — Enraged crowds protested the hanging of deposed president Saddam Hussein across Iraq’s Sunni Muslim heartland Monday, as a mob in Samara broke the locks off a bomb-damaged Shiite Muslim shrine and marched through carrying a mock coffin and photo of the dictator.

The demonstration in the Golden Dome, shattered in a bombing by Sunni extremists 10 months ago, suggests many Sunnis may now more actively support the small number of militants fighting against the country’s Shiite-dominated government. The Feb. 22 bombing of the shrine triggered the current cycle of retaliatory attacks between Sunnis and Shiites, in the form of daily bombings, kidnappings and murders. >>>cont

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