From a Reuters story: “‘We call on the Iraqi government to close all

Arab embassies,’ said a protestor in Baghdad’s Shi’ite Sadr City

district as others yelled ‘No to Syria.’”

“Thousands of Iraqi Shi’ites protested on Monday after hearing reports

that relatives of a Jordanian suicide bomber suspected of killing 125

people in the town of Hilla celebrated him as a martyr.”

“After breaking into the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad and tearing down

the flag, protesters called on all foreign Arabs to leave the country

and denounced Jordan’s King Abdullah.

“Anti-Jordanian sentiment has been spreading since Iraqis read newspaper

reports that Jordan’s Raid al-Banna blew himself up beside people lining

up for jobs in the Shi’ite town of Hilla last month in the single

bloodiest attack in postwar Iraq.

“Al Qaeda’s wing in Iraq, led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab

al-Zarqawi, claimed responsibility for the blast.”