Three rockets hit US embassy in protest-hit Iraqi capital

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BAGHDAD: Three rockets slammed into the US embassy in Iraq's capital on Sunday (Jan 26) in the first direct hit reported after months of close ...

BAGHDAD: Three rockets slammed into the US embassy in Iraq's capital on Sunday in the first direct hit reported after months of close calls, as thousands kept up anti-government sit-ins across the country.

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi and Speaker of Parliament Mohammed Halbusi both condemned the incident, saying it risked dragging their homeland into war. Vehemently anti-American cleric Moqtada Sadr organised a mass rally in Baghdad on Friday, where thousands of his supporters called for American troops to leave.

Activists feared that without his political cover, authorities would move to crush their movement - and indeed, within hours, riot police tried to storm protest camps across the capital and south.

 

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