Report: Sadr calls for painting barriers to 'depict the ugliness and terrorist nature of the occupier'

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Shiite radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr urged Iraqis on Monday to paint the concrete barriers springing up around Baghdad with murals showing what he dubbed the "ugly face" of the US military in Iraq...

"I call on you to draw magnificent tableaux that depict the ugliness and terrorist nature of the occupier, and the sedition, car bombings, blood and the like he has brought upon Iraqis," he said, in a statement issued by his office.

"Paint the civilisation of Iraq and the ugliness of the occupier. Paint the bright face of Iraq and the ugly face of the occupier," he continued.

"Draw with your pens and brushes your suffering caused by the occupier, leading to shortages of services and the theft of your rights. Long live those hands that depict the reality and injustice and the duty of the government."

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