Sadr Supporters Hold New Protest in Baghdad

Supporters of the Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr raise a portrait of their leader, as they protest at a rival bloc's nomination for prime minister Ahmad Al-Rubaye AFP

Thousands of supporters of cleric Moqtada Sadr protested Saturday three days after storming the Iraqi parliament.

Brandishing Iraqi flags and portraits of Sadr, the protesters gathered at the end of a bridge leading to Baghdad's heavily fortified "Green Zone" district of government buildings and foreign embassies, an AFP correspondent reported.