Thousands demonstrate against security pact between Iraq and U.S. in Baghdad

Demonstrators pass through a security checkpoint before a rally at Firdos square in Baghdad November 21, 2008. Followers of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr marched on Friday against a pact letting U.S. forces stay in Iraq until 2011, and toppled an effigy of President George W. Bush where U.S. troops once tore down a statue of Saddam Hussein. (UPI Photo/Ali Jasim)