THOUSANDS of anti-war protesters yesterday rallied to demand Britain withdraw its troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.
World Against War marches took place in Glasgow, London, Washington, Beirut, Sydney and Seoul.
Scots protesters were just a handful of those marching across the globe, in a demonstration organisers hoped would attract millions.
Among the marche
rs in Glasgow was Rose Gentle, whose son Gordon died in Iraq.
Leading a contingent of military families demanding that troops be brought home, she said: "The military families are here today to say
it's five years now and it's time our boys came home and for Gordon Brown to set a date and say this is when they will be out of Iraq.
"We hope that he starts helping the families and injured and those with combat stress and the veterans."
Representatives from organisations including Solidarity, the Communist Party of Britain, EIS and Unison also took part in the march.
The demonstrators set off from Blythswood Square and marched to Glasgow Green for a rally with speakers including Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn.
In London, protesters heard speeches from the leaders of a range of groups, including CND and the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign.
• A call by a former senior Tony Blair aide for Britain to find a way to communicate with al-Qaeda has been dismissed as "inconceivable" by the Government.
Jonathan Powell, the long-term Downing Street chief of staff, said that he would be pushing for a channel to be opened with the terror group if he was still in the job.
He said it was comparable with the contact established with the IRA in the 1970s.
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