Analysts stated that the large size of the protest pressured the government to concede to the protesters' demands.
Most officials gave only vague estimates of the size of the protest, saying hundreds of men took part.
Others pointed out that the size of the protest group made it more vulnerable to information leaking out during routine police surveillance.
She declined to predict the size of the protest, but said the Radical Party was busing in Karadzic supporters from all over Serbia and Bosnia.
Blood spots stained the sidewalk where the wounded had fallen, and the size of the protest soon swelled as angry Islamists from elsewhere joined in.
Murphy, who won a Dáil seat in a Dublin byelection in October over his opposition to water charges, said the size of the protest on a freezing cold day had exceeded his expectations.
"What gives them the legal right to remove 40 metres of evidence of genocide and reduce it to just three metres?" The legal size of the protest - three metres - was imposed by the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (SOCPA) 2005.
Maybe it will be O.K. for this generation, but what about the next?" Local officials, seemingly startled by the size of the protest, responded by holding a news conference in which the mayor promised to extend the public comment period by 10 days.
