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[News From Antiwar.com] The official story of the 2003 US invasion ousting long-time dictator Saddam Hussein and replacing him with a US-style democracy with a US-approved constitution, known as the “liberation of Iraq,” is taking a serious hit as public protests in the streets of Iraq are met, as they have been in the more straightforward dictatorships in the region, with violent crackdowns.

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[The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment] Attacks on media, activists spur fears in Iraq | The Daily Caller ...: Protesters gathered in central Baghdad to demonstrate against corruption and the lack of government services. The banners in Arabic reads, "We demand release of innocent prisoners" and "We demand the resignation of Supreme Court and local councils." (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

[Examiner RSS] Attacks on media, activists spur fears in Iraq | The Associated ...: A surge of protests against Iraq's U.S.-backed democratic government has provoked a violent crackdown on demonstrators and journalists that is raising concerns about a rollback of civil liberties throughout the country.

[Morrison World News] Protest Organizers Ordered To Shut Offices In Iraq: In Tahrir Square here, a traffic circle and park that has become a focal point for the protesters, about 200 people stood behind yellow police tape and shouted “We want our rights!” and vented their disillusionment at Iraq’s leaders and the problems plaguing this troubled democracy.

[Exposing & Fighting Against Global Anti-Semitism & Anti-Jewish Racism] At Least 29 Dead in Iraq Protest Crackdowns ”” News from Antiwar ...: The death toll in Iraq’s broad anti-regime protests, and the subsequent violent crackdown by security forces, has risen to 29 killed, with untold hundreds of others wounded across at least eight cities since Friday. …

[News From Antiwar.com] Despite Massive Death Toll, Maliki Muses Iraq 'Safest Arab Country ...: Maliki’s comments, given from behind the heavily fortified walls of the Green Zone, come in the wake of massive public protests across the region, but while clearly Libya’s massacres have led the pack in violent crackdowns, Iraq has seen its own massive protests, and its own violent crackdown, which killed at least 29 of the protesters.

[Global Issues News Headlines] Will The Libya Syndrome Spread In Opec? ”” Global Issues: Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), absolute monarchies with aspects of a free market economy that are major producers of oil and gas, do not appear to have been seriously shaken by protests like other Arab countries, but face a demographic challenge: most of the workforce, and even a majority of the population in these countries, is foreign-born.

[Investor's Iraq Forum - Iraq Dinar Forum, Iraq Investments, Iraq Stock Exchange, Iraq Bank, Iraq News, Iraqi Dinar] Demonstrations Turn Violent in Iraq: “With the heat getting worse, the lack of electricity and the fact that Iraqis know how well others are living better in neighboring countries, they will be much more likely to take to the streets. On top of that, they know about how successful protests have been in Tunisia, Egypt, and maybe Libya.”

[News From Antiwar.com] At Least 23 Killed as Iraq Cracks Down on Huge Protests -- News ...: Indeed despite angry threats from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki against the possible demonstrations, such protests were held nationwide today, prompting the resignations of a number of local officials and violent crackdowns by the nation’s securty forces against tens of thousands of discontented protesters from northern Kurdistan to the southern port of Basra.

[BrazosValleyBuzz.com] Attacks on Iraq activists spark concern | BrazosValleyBuzz.com: BAGHDAD | A surge of protests against Iraq's U.S.-backed democratic government has provoked a violent crackdown on demonstrators and journalists that is raising concerns about a rollback of civil liberties throughout the country.

[Aurora Baha's Blog] Demonstrations Turn Violent in Iraq: by: Jack Healy and Michael S. Schmidt, The New York Times News Service | Report. Baghdad - Demonstrations turned violent across Iraq on Friday, as protesters burned buildings and security forces fired on the crowds. ...

[Onda International Newspaper. Il giornale della Liguria e del mondo] Onda International Newspaper. Il giornale della Liguria e del ...: Her Boeing 757’s cabin, stocked with a roll-out bed, newspapers, and a corner humidifier, now serves as another home as she flies between diplomatic hot spots, tackling the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, tensions with Iran and North Korea, the Arab-Israeli peace process, and, now, the serial Middle East upheavals. She is, it seems, everywhere at once, crossing time zones and defying jet lag, though signs of exhaustion””a hoarse voice, bleary eyes””slip through.

[News From Antiwar.com] Despite Reform Pledges, Unrest Continues in Iraqi Kurdistan ...: Though KRG Prime Minister Burham Saleh has promised more reforms, .While the protests had previously been restricted to Friday, as they have been in much of Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan has seen protests continue through the weekend, particularly in Sulaymaniyah, where protesters have set up camps and aren't .

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