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Sunday, May 1st, 2016

Baghdad in State of Emergency After Supporters of al Sadr Storm Green Zone

Author:     Mo Abbas, F. Brinley Bruton and Elizabeth Chuck
Source:     NBC News
Publication Date:     Apr 30 2016, 9:38 pm ET
 Link: Baghdad in State of Emergency After Supporters of al Sadr Storm Green Zone
Stephan:   We have spent nearly a trillion dollars on the war in Iraqi, and are currently spending every hour $117,000 of taxpayer money. And this is where we are. Oh, and remember Muqtada al-Sadr? The young Shiite cleric who founded the Mahdi Army, and became a power in 2003? He's back at the end of this assault on the Green Zone, the special enclave where the supposed government and the U.S. embassy are sited? George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and the other imperialist neocons have a lot to answer for. They are world historical villains.
Followers of Iraq's Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gather in the parliament building as they storm Baghdad's Green Zone after lawmakers failed to convene for a vote on overhauling the government on April 30. Credit: AHMED SAAD / Reuters

Followers of Iraq’s Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gather in the parliament building as they storm Baghdad’s Green Zone after lawmakers failed to convene for a vote on overhauling the government on April 30.
Credit: AHMED SAAD / Reuters

Iraqi officials declared a state of emergency for all of Baghdad on Saturday after protesters loyal to popular Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr breached the heavily fortified Green Zone, home to government buildings and foreign embassies, including the American one.

“Iraq security authorities have declared a state of emergency in Baghdad,” said Brig. Gen. Saad Mann, a spokesman for the Iraqi military. “All gates that lead to Baghdad are closed. No one is allowed to enter into Baghdad, only those who want to leave Baghdad can do so.”

Hundreds of demonstrators occupied the country’s parliament, according to a senior Iraqi security […]

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