Protests Continue for Rice in Britain
BLACKBURN, England — A second day of loud antiwar protests greeted Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Saturday, and the top U.S. diplomat heard more subtle pleas for peace and tolerance from Christian and Muslim leaders in this multiethnic but divided northern town. Early today, she and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw arrived in Baghdad, said a British Embassy spokesperson there. At a meeting with Muslim community leaders they expressed to Rice their opposition to the war in Iraq. They also raised concerns about the Guantanamo prison and U.S. policies in the Palestinian territories, a Muslim businessman said afterward.
Kam Kothia, of the Blackburn Asian Business Federation, said he and other leaders gave Rice the same message of opposition to U.S. policies voiced in less polite tones outside.
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