Baghdad Protestors Demand Elections

Thousands of Iraqis marched through Baghdad Monday demanding elections.

Iraq's U.S. governor Paul Bremer and members of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council were due to meet U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to discuss the transfer of sovereignty. Washington hopes to persuade the United Nations to play a role in the hope this will help win over Iraqis.

Bremer and the Governing Council are likely to press Annan to send a team of experts to Iraq help convince supporters of Iraq's most revered Shi'ite cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, that his call for direct general elections is not feasible now.