Baghdad’s citizens protest

SCORES of Baghdad residents protested at the disruption to utilities in the city as hundreds of Iraqi police and other civil servants responded to calls to meet yesterday.

The US had urged them via radio broadcasts to help efforts to resume order and key services to the capital.

But scores of residents protested in central Baghdad, angry that power and water supplies were still disrupted. Some accused US forces of being concerned only about oil rather than getting the country back on its feet.