Most of Baghdad closed down yesterday after a prominent religious leader called for a strike to protest against the US military's bloody offensive against insurgents in Fallujah.
Most shops, banks, government ministries and schools across the capital kept their door closed, particularly in the Sunni Muslim neighbourhood of Aadhamiya, in sympathy with the restive town where hundreds have died.
The neighbourhood's main Mustansiriya University was deserted.
Across the city, traffic moved easily along roads which are usually jammed throughout the day.
During his weekly sermon yesterday, prominent Sheikh Harith Sulaiman al-Dhari, a prominent Sunni Mulsim cleric, called for a three-day strike to protest against US army offensives.
His sermon -- which also marked the one-year anniversary of the fall of Baghdad -- further branded Iraqi politicians serving on US-appointed bodies as "traitors" siding with the occupation.
"Fie on every traitor, and to everyone who pushed towards occupying this country," said Dhari
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