War IN BRIEF : MOROCCO : 300,000 Turn Out for Pro-Iraq Rally
At least 300,000 people, some holding portraits of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and pictures of Scud missiles, took to the streets of Rabat to show support for Iraq in the Gulf War. Demonstrators burned U.S., British, French and Israeli flags and demanded that allied troops, including Moroccan soldiers, withdraw from the Gulf. The protesters, including 10,000 Islamic fundamentalists, chanted slogans rebuking President Bush, Saudi King Fahd, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and French President Francois Mitterrand.
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