(2 Jan 2007)
1. Coffin with picture of Saddam on being passed through chanting crowd
2. Pull-out from close-up of men with picture of Saddam on top of Golden Mosque, to wide of demonstrators in front of shrine
3. Protesters chanting pro-Saddam slogans and carrying picture of Saddam
4. Zoom-in to crowd standing with linked arms in courtyard of Golden Mosque, holding prayers, coffin with picture of Saddam on ground, protesters move off at end of prayers and start demonstrating again
5. Mid of protesters marching with Golden Mosque in background
STORYLINE:
Enraged crowds turned out across Iraq's Sunni heartland on Monday to protest the hanging of Saddam Hussein, as a mob in Samarra broke the locks off a bomb-damaged Shiite shrine and marched through carrying a mock coffin and photo of the former Iraqi leader.
Protesters passed a symbolic coffin through the crowds and held prayers in the yard of the Golden Mosque, a holy Shiite shrine, which was bombed on February 22, 2006 by Sunni extremists.
The demonstration suggests that many Sunni Arabs may now more actively support the small number of Sunni militants fighting the country's Shiite-dominated government.
The February 22 bombing of the shrine triggered the current cycle of retaliatory attacks between Sunnis and Shiia, in the form of daily bombings, kidnappings and murders.
Monday's protest came on a day that saw the US military kill six Iraqis during a raid on the offices of a prominent Sunni political figure, who was suspected of giving al-Qaida in Iraq fighters sanctuary.
Until Saddam's execution on Saturday, most Sunnis sympathised with militants but avoided taking a direct role in the sectarian conflict, despite attacks by Shiite militia that have killed thousands of Sunnis or driven them from their homes.
The current Sunni protests, which appear to be building, could signal a spreading militancy.
Sunnis were outraged by Saddam's hurried execution, just four days after an appeals court upheld his conviction and sentence.
Many were also incensed by the unruly scene in the execution chamber, captured on video, in which Saddam was taunted with chants of "Muqtada, Muqtada, Muqtada."
The chants referred to Muqtada al-Sadr, a firebrand Shiite cleric who runs one of Iraq's most violent religious militias.
Many Sunnis are also upset that Saddam was put to death the day that Sunni celebrations began for Eid al-Ahda, a major Muslim festival.
The judge who first presided over the case that resulted in Saddam's death sentence said the former dictator's execution at the start of Eid was illegal according to Iraqi law, and contradicted Islamic custom.

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