Iraq War Protest; Karbala Attack on U.S. Soldiers More Sophisticated; U.S. Takes Tougher Stance Against Iranian Agents in Iraq - Part 1.

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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: "Now in the News," in Baghdad's Green Zone, a second straight day of rock eight tacks. Also in the Iraqi capital, 15 people were killed in a pair of bombings at a busy market. Police also say at least 40 bodies have been found today in Baghdad

Securing Iraq and its capital city a key concern for President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. The two men talked about that issue on the telephone today. A spokesman for the Iraqi leader says during the call Mr. Bush renewed his commitment to the Baghdad security plan.

And so far no claim of a responsibility for a deadly bombing in Pakistan. The blast, near a crowded Shiite mosque in Peshawar, killed least 11 people and wounded 40. Among the dead, one of the city's police chiefs.

In Hawaii, a success for the Pentagon's missile defense agency. A spokeswoman says an interceptor missile took out a dummy missile during a test over the Pacific Ocean. The system is designed to protect the U.S. from ballistic missiles.

U.S. troops have permission to go after Iranian agents inside Iraq. How will that add to the mission?

And a look at a very dangerous area of Baghdad, Haifa Street, once a fashionable thorough fare before the war.

And later in our legal segment, a young man in prison for years for consensual sex. And the law that put him there no longer on the books. Why?

You're in the NEWSROOM. The news unfolding live on this Saturday, the 27th day of January.

I'm Fredricka Whitfield. You're in the NEWSROOM. As U.S. troop levels grow in Iraq, so does public opposition to the war. Politicians, celebrities and thousands of demonstrators are gathered at a rally on the National Mall.

Gary Nurenberg joins us from Washington, where the crowd has grown over the last few hours -- Gary. GARY NURENBERG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, that's true, Fredricka. We are at the step-off point for a march on the Capitol following a rally here on the National Mall, some lasting for several hours.

Among those taking part in the rally were veterans of the anti- Vietnam War movement from 40 years ago, including Congressman John Conyers of Michigan, who asked rhetorically, "We ended the war in Vietnam, didn't we?" Also on that list of speakers, a prominent opponent of the war in Vietnam who says she hasn't addressed an anti-war rally in 34 years. Then Jane Fonda went on to say silence is no longer an option.

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JANE FONDA, ACTRESS: I haven't spoken at an anti-war rally in 34 years because I've been afraid that because of the lies that have been and continue to be spread about me in that war, that they would be used to hurt this new anti-war movement. But silence is no longer an option.

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NURENBERG: Fonda went on to say she was disappointed to have to be here. In her words, saying, "We have not learned the lessons of Vietnam." Instead, she is sad to see them repeated with the Iraq war.

Evident in the tens of thousands of demonstrators who are here in Washington today are many representatives of military families who are speaking out against the war, not only against the increase in troops called for by President Bush, but who are actively saying to members of Congress and lobbying both Friday and in plans for lobbying on Monday that they want fund cutoffs as one way to end this campaign.

Among those who came here to Washington today is a woman named Peggy Gray, whose son has just returned from a tour of duty in Iraq.

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PEGGY GRAY, MOTHER OF SOLDIER: Like most vets, that come back -- we have talked to many parents -- withdrawn, difficulty with sleep, spends a lot of time reading in his room by himself, has I think somewhat of a difficulty connecting with his friends back home now. You know, it's hard. They don't understand what he went through.

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NURENBERG: The group called Military Families Speak Out Against the War says …