Peaceful Rally in Iraq?

In a letter, al-Sadr called for a pan-Muslim Friday prayer sermon in central Baghdad's Firdous Square next week, instead of separate services in individual mosques.

After the prayers, al-Sadr said participants should protest peacefully against the proposed security agreement under negotiation between the Iraqi and U.S. governments.

"Let them all be united to foil the signing of the agreement that wants to sell Iraq to the occupier just like our holy lands in Palestine and other Arab and Islamic lands were sold before, and let that be next Friday hoping that we clear our conscience in front of God and his prophet and let everyone, after they finish the sacred ritual, gather for a peaceful demonstration to express their rejection of the agreement," al-Sadr wrote in the letter.