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Fr Feb 25 -

IRAQI STUDENTS
DENOUNCE 'ZIONIST PLOT' -

*Hundreds of Iraqi students demonstrated to protest a government decision to extend the weekend to include Saturday, denouncing the scheme as a 'Zionist plot.'

Irate high school students marched through Baqouba, northeast of Baghdad, denouncing outgoing Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's decision to extend the weekend from the traditional Islamic holy day of Friday to include Saturday.

'We don't want Saturday as it is a Jewish holiday,' the crowd chanted Wednesday.*

:: AFP/Naharnet ::

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