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01/22/2006:

"Thousands Rally Against U.S. in Pakistan"

...About 5,000 demonstrators assembled on a dry riverbed in a mountain market town near the site of strike, shouting "Long live Osama bin Laden!" and "Death to America!" They also burned effigies of President Bush.

"America is the biggest terrorist in the world," said Maulana Mohammed Sadiq, a lawmaker of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party that helped organize the protest. "America bombed innocent people inside their homes."

The rally was the latest in a string of protests over the missile strike.

The assault has sparked friction between Islamabad and Washington and widespread outrage in the Islamic nation of 150 million. Thousands have taken to the street in protest over the past week in Pakistan's biggest cities.

On Saturday, Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf told visiting U.S Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns that the United States cannot repeat such attacks, a Foreign Ministry official said. Foreign Minister Khursheed Kasuri called the assault "counterproductive" given the "prevailing public sentiment."
washingtonpost.com