Salvadorans protest Iraq deployment

Salvador Sanchez of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) told hundreds of protesters in the capital that sending scores of soldiers to Iraq was a "serious error". "This government is responsible if anything happens to any citizen," he said. Numerous Iraqi resistance groups have already issued a series of threats against El Salvador unless it pulled out of Iraq altogether. But a new contingent of 380 Salvadoran soldiers is scheduled to join more than 300 compatriots already in Iraq with the US-led forces, within days. [more ]