’Peace’ protestors seem to like clowns and performers on stilts. In Kurdistan the liberation crowd prefer rather different props:

“We have been afraid so long. We have not been able to sleep. Now we can.” Behind him a group of youths danced on the roundabout, waving a 4ft replica of a B-52. They grinned and waggled several homemade cardboard cruise missiles. “I want to drop this on Saddam Hussein’s house,” Hoyshar Rashid,20, joked.”