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I blogged earlier about the thousands of Moqtada al-Sadr followers who protested the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad in Najaf today.
Well, it appears there is a major dispute over how many “thousands” were actually there. According to this CNN article, the U.S. military’s estimate is “5,000 to 7,000.” According to this Reuters article that I cited earlier, it is “tens of thousands.” And according to this Agence France-Presse article and this BBC article the number of participants is in the “hundreds of thousands.” If that’s true, did the military really think they were going to fool anybody with that “5,000 to 7,000” nonsense?
Hoo-boy. Who to believe? We’ll keep digging…
