>That's interesting. The cnn article stated that the protest occurred when the mosques let out after prayers and only select mosques were protesting...

...which would make sense. They were sent there from their gov't jobs to get their (literally) marching orders. Milošević was doing the same thing with workers of larger state companies in the central and south areas, where his pals were CEOs and often (at least partial) owners. The workers would get a lunch pack, about $2 cash (which was good enough for a couple of beers then) and would be rushed into the company buses, to go and stage pro-govt protest wherever needed. They skipped the religious part then, their marching orders were delivered before boarding the buses.

If you ask why "central and south"? Because he had to allow for some independent media, but made sure they couldn't cover good parts of Belgrade, and the central and south Serbia had no idea any such beast ever existed. They knew of The Tee Vee and The Radio, they were his power base. But bringing them to Belgrade was a huge mistake - they saw things they shouldn't have, and then went home and talked about them :).

>>>I watched the video on cnn. Looks like a protest of extremists to me, but I'm not Sudanese, so I don't know. I first wondered don't they all have jobs?
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>>According to NPR, a lot of the protesters are government workers who were ordered to protest.
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>>Tamar