Protest at US embassy in London over 9/11
- From: AAP
- September 12, 2011
A SMALL group of Islamist demonstrators has staged a protest outside the US embassy in London during a ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States.
About 50 people brandished anti-US banners, chanted slogans and burnt a small piece of paper with a picture of the US flag on it.
The protesters were understood to be from a group called Muslims Against Crusades.
They were seeking to disrupt a moment's silence to mark the moment when the first hijacked airliner hit the World Trade Center in New York 10 years ago, starting the attacks.
When they began burning the paper outside the embassy in central London, police formed a line near them but there was no violenece. The small blaze went out in about a minute, he said.