Iraqi power workers protest attacks

Baghdad - Hundreds of power employees shouting "No, no to terror!" have marched through Baghdad's streets to protest attacks that have killed dozens of their colleagues.

Lined up behind a black banner with the names of slain power workers, protesters on Thursday demanded an end to attacks against power stations and pipelines - part of the two-year armed campaign to undermine the US-led troops and the interim government.

Also on Thursday, in the southern city of Basra, more than 200 workers gathered outside a local government building to insist that the new government's ministers of oil and transportation be from their region.

"Everyone must know that the oppressed and persecuted people of the south refuse to have their interests be ignored," protesters said in a statement given to the provincial governor, Muhammad al-Wali. -- Al-Jazeera News

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