Kuwaitis stage anti-US demo, wave Qaeda flag
KUWAIT CITY: About 500 demonstrators gathered Thursday near the US
embassy in Kuwait waving a black Al-Qaeda flag in protest at a film
mocking Islam.
President Barack “Obama, we are all Osama,” they chanted referring to
Al-Qaeda’s former leader Osama bin Laden who was killed by US forces
last year, an AFP photographer at the site of the demonstration
reported.
The protesters gathered around 500 metres (yards) away from the US
embassy after police forces, heavily deployed in the area, stopped them
from reaching the mission.
The demonstrators were joined by five Islamist lawmakers as they
called for expelling the US ambassador in the Gulf country.
“The people want to expel the ambassador,” they chanted, as one of
their banners read: “USA... respect us.”
Protests have erupted since Tuesday outside US diplomatic missions in
several Arab and Muslim states.
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