Shiite protests occured in 3 Iraqi cities to protest the US occupation following young outspoken cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's call for protest.

What was funny Friday was the frontline story and picture and following controversy of tyrant Saddam Hussein in his drawers washing his clothes. And Hussein is going to sue the newspapers which published that embarrasing story. He was a terrible dictator who ruled his country with an iron fist as most dictators do, and killed many of his own citizens, mostly Kurds and Shiites. Now with these "candid" pictures of him he gets to be humiliated and robbed of dignity for the whole world.

It's ironic that the US army is going to have to investigate how this happened considering this was a harmless but fitting embarassment for Hussein unlike the Abu Ghariad affair- see "US military vowed to "aggressively" investigate how the photos of Iraq's ousted leader appeared in the paper". But then these pictures may have broken the Geneva convention rules for treatment of prisoners.