At Least 42 Dead After Days Of Violent Protests In Iraq

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Source: NPR

Iraqi security forces fired live rounds to disperse crowds of protesters in Baghdad on Friday, as the death toll from days of anti-government unrest has reached at least 42, according to officials.

The mostly spontaneous student protests erupted on Tuesday, with demonstrations centered on Baghdad's Tahrir Square and across the country's mainly Shiite south. The protesters are expressing anger over widespread unemployment and corruption, as well as electricity outages and water shortages that result from years of conflict that have left much of the country's infrastructure in shambles.

Security forces have responded to the protests with live ammunition, water cannon, tear gas and rubber bullets. Authorities have also cut Internet service in the capital and across much of the country.

Many of the protesters have called on the government to step down.



Read more: https://www.npr.org/2019/10/04/767107796/at-least-42-dead-after-days-of-violent-protests-in-iraq

[Wellstone ruled]

1. This is the aftermath of

what Collin Powell called the Pottery Barn effect on Iraq. Biden and McCain forecast this would happen.

Well,here you go kiddies,Civil War among the Muslim factions and the Street Gangs.

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2. Did this happen on bush street?

[Sapient Donkey]

3. Well this isn't good at all.

The poor people of Iraq never get a rest.