From Central Command:

THOUSANDS TURN OUT TO DENOUNCE VIOLENCE, BA�ATH PARTY

MOSUL, Iraq (Jan. 26, 2004) � Over 2,000 members of the former Ba�ath party turned out at the Mosul Public Safety Academy to renounce their membership in the party, to denounce violence and to pledge support to a new, free and democratic Iraq.

The ceremony is the largest held in the Nineveh province to date.

Former officers in the Iraqi Army who were also Ba�ath party members filed into the academy and signed an agreement that disavowed their party affiliation and pledged to cooperate fully with the Coalition Provisional Authority in serving the people of Iraq.

So far, there has been scant - if any - coverage on this demonstration moving over the wires.