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<h1><b>Anti-FBI protest in Puerto Rico<br><br>
</b></h1><font size=3><b>SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- More than 1,000
demonstrators, chanting anti-FBI slogans and carrying Puerto Rican flags,
marched through the capital of this U.S. island territory on
Sunday.<br><br>
</b>Many of the marchers favor independence for the island and accuse the
FBI of persecuting the movement and of letting Filiberto Ojeda Rios bleed
to death during a September FBI raid. Ojeda Rios, the fugitive leader of
a pro-independence militant group, was wanted for the 1983 robbery of a
Wells Fargo armored truck depot.<br><br>
Demonstrators chanted "Respect Puerto Rico!" and "FBI get
out!"<br><br>
Marchers later accused an onlooker of being a federal agent.<br><br>
Confronting the man, demonstrators began shouting "murderer,
murderer." After several minutes the man fled in an automobile and
protesters banged on the car windows, cracking the glass, witnesses
said.<br><br>
Many of the marchers said the man, who was dressed in black, had been
taking photographs of the demonstration. Several witnesses said the man
had been carrying a firearm.<br><br>
According to police, there were no injuries in Sunday's
demonstration.<br><br>
Demonstrators also chanted against the FBI's tactics.<br><br>
FBI agents on February 10 searched five homes and a business to thwart
what the agency said was a "domestic terrorist attack" planned
by independence militants.<br><br>
As word spread of the FBI operation, reporters gathered outside an
apartment building in the San Juan area as agents searched.<br><br>
A television stations broadcast images of federal agents using pepper
spray on reporters and protesters -- prompting complaints from journalist
associations on the island.<br><br>
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