‘Let’s bomb Texas, they’ve got oil too’

TENS of thousands of anti-war demonstrators staged huge marches across the world, clashing with police as they converged on heavily guarded US embassies.

Barely three hours after the first cruise missiles slammed into Baghdad, a wave of demonstrations started in Asia and Australia and rolled swiftly across Europe and the Middle East towards the United States, where anti-war activists planned hundreds of protests. In the Arab world, thousands of protesters vented their fury at the start of the war, with demonstrators in Egypt and Syria demanding the expulsion of US ambassadors.

In Cairo, the Arab world’s biggest city, riot police used water cannon and batons against hundreds of rock-throwing protesters who tried to storm towards the US embassy.