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Anti-war protestors arrested

WASHINGTON, March 17 (UPI) -- The late-night start of a rally against the U.S. war in Iraq resulted in dozens of protesters being arrested by police outside the White House.

The demonstrators handcuffed about 11:30 p.m. Friday were among about 100 people who appeared on the sidewalk to pray in a planned act of civil disobedience, The Washington Post said Saturday.

The group was part of a crowd of about 3,000 that had gathered at the Washington National Cathedral for a service marking the fourth anniversary of the war and timed to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the 1967 march on the Pentagon against the Vietnam War.

Protest leaders hoped tens of thousands of people would show up for a march Saturday afternoon that was to take demonstrators from the Lincoln Memorial, across the Arlington Memorial Bridge, to a Pentagon parking lot. However, inclement weather was a possible factor.

One protestor whose son was killed in Iraq, Celeste Zappala of Philadelphia, said she was at the rally, which was sponsored by Christian Peace Witness for Iraq, to serve "as a witness to the true cost of war, the betrayal and madness that is the war in Iraq."

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