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| 2003/08/02 |
Police,clerics group against vendors
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06:20:22 �.�
Karbala, Aug 2 - Iraqi police in the Shiite Muslim city of Karbala teamed up with religious leaders Saturday to crackdown on street vendors around the revered shrine of Imam Hussein(AS).
A Shiite cleric in a police car, accompanied by two other police cars and a van full of armed men, urged the people of Karbala by loudspeaker to join the crackdown.
"You, the loyalists of Hussein! Help us rid this city of the lust so it refinds its purity!" the cleric said.
According to one policeman, street vendors have moved into the road leading to the Imam Hussein's mausoleum, selling, among other thing, weapons, ammunition, pornographic videos, alcohol and drugs.
"Don't stay here. Move along," the policeman said to a curious crowd.
One passerby added: "Finally, we have a police force that takes orders from clerics and not the Americans."
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