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NAME: WORLD PROTESTS 20060203I TAPE: EF06/0106 IN_TIME: 10:20:13:22 DURATION: 00:04:59:15 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION DATELINE: Various, 3 Feb 2006 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST: Jerusalem 1. Israeli police scuffling with Palestinian crowds trying to enter al-Aqsa mosque compound 2. Various of scuffles between Israeli police and Palestinian crowds near Old City walls 3. Men standing on top of wall inside al-Aqsa compound holding green Hamas flag, Norwegian and Danish flags 4. Wide of demonstrators in front of al-Aqsa mosque 5. Protesters chanting, Dome of the Rock mosque in background 6. Scuffle between Palestinian protesters and Israeli police at Damascus Gate, stun grenade thrown 7. Wide of Damascus Gate Beirut, Lebanon 8. Wide of demonstration in Ein el-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp 9. Demonstrator carrying pistol, marching and chanting slogans 10. Demonstrators burning various European flags 11. Entrance of Borj el-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp 12. Palestinian woman holding anti-Danish and anti-Norwegian banner 13. Palestinian children holding banner calling for the boycott of Danish and Norwegian products 14. Interior of Imam Hassanein mosque in southern suburb of Beirut 15. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohamed Hussein Fadlallah, Shiite spiritual leader: "Muslims all over the world have to continue to exercise their peaceful pressures, to make the world know that this is not just a matter of freedom of expression but a war on the sanctities and values of the Muslims in the world." Baghdad, Iraq 16. Wide shot of anti-Danish demonstration outside Abu Hanifa mosque 17. Demonstrators holding banners calling for the boycott of Danish products 18. Demonstrators pouring petrol on the Danish flag and burning it 19. Demonstrator chanting 20. Danish flag on fire 21. Demonstrators set Danish made products on fire 22. Wide of others throwing Danish products onto fire 23. Wide shot demonstration with fire Tehran, Iran 24. Wide of women marching and chanting "Down with America" 25. Men chanting "Down with America" 26. Wide of demonstrators chanting "We will never give in to the use of force" 27. Women demonstrating, holding banner reading: "Down with Denmark" 28. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iran's former president, walking to lectern 29. Worshipers chanting: "Down with America" 30. SOUNDBITE: (Farsi) Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Former Iranian President: "They introduce Muslims as barbarians and terrorists to pave the way for making decisions such as the one they're taking against Iran today (at the IAEA). Such desecrations are preparation for such an ominous decision." 31. Wide of Friday prayers Islamabad, Pakistan 32. Various of protesters holding banners 33. Various of men chanting "God is Great" 34. Banner reading: "Blasphemy - a sign of Western extremism" 35. Liaquat Baluch, Secretary General of Jamaat-e Islami (religious opposition party) addressing protesters 36. Various of protesters STORYLINE: Muslim protesters took to the streets of major cities around the world on Friday to demonstrate against the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in European newspapers. In the Palestinian Territories, tens of thousands of angry Muslims marched through Palestinian cities after Friday prayers. In Jerusalem's Old City, a group of around one hundred men, carrying a large green Hamas banner, chanted slogans in defence of the Prophet Muhammad and denounced Israel. There were scuffles between Israeli police and Palestinian worshippers trying to gain access to the al-Aqsa mosque compound. But entry to the compound was limited by the Israeli authorities to men aged 45 and above - a measure often used to suppress demonstrations at prayer time. Large rallies were held also in Gaza City and Nablus and Ramallah in the West Bank. Emotions were also running high in the Palestinian refugee camps around the Lebanese capital. Protesters burnt various European flags and products and carried banners calling for the boycott of Danish and Norwegian goods. The Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, spiritual leader of Lebanon's 1.2 (m) million Shiites, called on Muslims in the world to "continue to exercise their peaceful pressures, to make the world know that this is not just a matter of freedom of expression but a war on the sanctities and values of the Muslims in the world." Across Iraq, Sunni and Shiite Islamic leaders called for demonstrations after Friday prayers to denounce the cartoons. Iraq's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has condemned the publication of the caricatures but suggested that militant Muslims were partly to blame for distorting the image of Islam. Meanwhile in Tehran, protesters chanted slogans and held banners denouncing Denmark - the country that first published the pictures. Addressing worshippers at Friday prayers, former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said he believed the cartoons were linked to the International Atomic Energy Agency's imminent decision on whether to refer Iran to the UN Security Council over the country's nuclear programme. Also on Friday, around 800 people turned out to protest in Islamabad. The Secretary General of Jamaat-e Islami, Liaquat Baluch, said the cartoons were "insulting the feelings of the Muslim ummah (community)". Under Pakistani law, anyone insulting Muhammad or Islam's holy book, the Quran, can be sentenced to death. The 12 cartoons first appeared in September in Denmark's largest broadsheet newspaper, Jyllands-Posten. They have since been reprinted across Europe. The pictures include an image of the Prophet Muhammad wearing a turban shaped as a bomb with a burning fuse, while another portrays him holding a sword, his eyes covered by a black rectangle. Islamic tradition bars any depiction of the Prophet Muhammad, favourable or otherwise, to prevent idolatry.