Anger, struggles six years after US invaded Iraq...

Thousands of Iraqis, mainly followers of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, called for an end to US occupation of Iraq on Friday.

Death tolls have tumbled since Iraq's deadliest days in late 2007, and in just three months time American forces are to withdraw from major cities and towns in a prelude to a total pullout in 2011.

Neither the Iraqi authorities nor the US military marked the March 20, 2003 invasion.

But Sadr's devotees used Friday prayers to call for an end to the American presence.

"We reject occupation... occupiers out," the faithful chanted, fists raised, in Sadr City, an impoverished district of northeast Baghdad, as a US flag was set ablaze. More...

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