In Iraq - probably the same thing they'd be doing here, there or anywhere else I can think of. Riot!
Violent demonstrations also broke out across Iraq and the oil minister threatened to resign after the government raised the prices of gasoline and cooking fuel by up to nine times. And a militant group released a video of the purported killing of an American hostage.
This the third paragraph of an AP
article - headline: Results Show Shiites Lead In Election
What I don't understand is that the article gives the official purported reason for the price hike: To combat the black market? I must have been mistaken to think that lowering the price of something is how to remove the profit making motive - not raising it?
The violent protests over gas prices came after the Cabinet raised the prices of gasoline, diesel, kerosene and cooking gas on Sunday to curb a growing black market
It sounds like a very violent, chaotic backround to an election, that we can't be sure was fair, with results that are only rumour.
In Amarah, 180 miles southeast of Baghdad, police fired into the air to disperse hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the provincial government headquarters.
The demonstrators, however, did not leave, and some scuffled with police. Protesters also briefly blocked the main road between Amarah, Basra and Baghdad.
Drivers blocked roads and burned tires near fuel stations in the southern city of Basra, and hundreds of Iraqis demonstrated outside the governor's headquarters to protest the price increases.
In Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad, about 500 people demonstrated against the price hikes, giving a letter of protest to the city council to hand over to Cabinet ministers.
Meanwhile, operation Moonlight on Monday shines in the West of Iraq. What a nightmare!