Al-Sadr speaks at protest in Baghdad

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Baghdad - 26 February 2016
1. Various top shots of crowd chanting and waving Iraqi flags
2. Various of crowd waving flags
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Muqtada al-Sadr, Shiite cleric ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
"Today we are near the Green Zone walls. Tomorrow the people will enter it to regain their rights from the oppressors and the corrupt."
4. Crowd waving flags
5. Various of demonstrators chanting anti-corruption slogans and UPSOUND (Arabic): "Yes, yes for reforms"
6. Various of demonstrators carrying banners reading (Arabic and English) :"Yes for reform the government" and chanting UPSOUND (Arabic) "No, no for corruption"
7. Crowd waving flags
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of thousands of followers of the radical, anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr took to the streets of Baghdad on Friday in support of his decision to fight against rampant corruption.
Gathered in central Tahrir Square, the demonstrators waved Iraqi flags and chanted and held posters saying "no to corruption".
Al-Sadr also addressed the supporters and spoke of his efforts to fight corruption and bring about governmental reforms.
Iraq has been gripped by a major economic crisis and a crippling war with the Islamic State group, which has put a choke on domestic services in recent months.
Discontent is rising, even among the country's Shiite majority, with protests springing up in cities from the capital to Basra in the south.
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