(Telegraph-UK) Members of the Iraqi opposition derailed a train 20 miles south of the north Iraqi city of Mosul. In a separate incident, a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at a train transporting fuel from Baghdad to Syria. Demonstrations were reported in Kirkuk, where an estimated 20,000 marched on the Ba'ath party headquarters demanding Saddam's overthrow. A reported demonstration by Iraqi Shi'ites in Kerbala last weekend was violently suppressed. Posters of the Iraqi president, which adorn every public building, are being openly defaced and vandalized throughout the country.
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