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09/27/2003 Archived Entry: "'Troops out' protests in Europe"

WHAT IF YOU HAD A PROTEST AND NO ONE SHOWED UP: Well, that wasn't quite the case but a meagre 10 000 people showed up in London to protest continuing British military involvement in Iraq.

In the first major protest in Britain since the war ended in April, demonstrators -- some 10,000, by police estimates -- vented their anger at the invasion and the reasons given for it.

The turnout was a small fraction of the estimated million people in Britain who marched in February to protest moves to war.

The Stop The War Coalition, which was organizing the British event with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Muslim Association of Britain, had said it expected at least 100,000 people to take part.

Nothing like success to disarm your opponents.

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