IRAQ

Washington Post: Shiite clerics call for mass demonstration against U.S.
BAGHDAD -- Powerful Shiite clerics have called on hundreds of thousands of their supporters to take to the streets of Baghdad and other cities today in what could be the biggest show of religious opposition to the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

The call, made Sunday in a statement by a leading cleric in Baghdad and in leaflets posted in mosques in Shiite neighborhoods in the capital, marks an escalation in organized Shiite disenchantment with the U.S. occupation administration of L. Paul Bremer.