It turned out that demonstration that I thought was a rumor did take place in the afternoon... about 400 people marched in terrible weather to express solidarity with the Iraqi people and to denounce the foolish Arab masses. From what I saw on the news, there weren't many American or British flags. They must have read my instructions from yesterday.... Also, you can tell we're not used to this sort of thing... the banners were hastily scribbled and you could barely read what they said. Kind of endearing, actually...

Another group of people demonstrated outside the Libyan embassy in response to a mob of Libyans storming our embassy in Tripoli, taking down the Kuwaiti flag and raising the Iraqi flag in its place!