Iraqi forces fire tear gas injuring 22 in Baghdad: sources

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Security forces fired tear gas at anti-government protesters in Baghdad on Sunda...

BAGHDAD - Security forces fired tear gas at anti-government protesters in Baghdad on Sunday injuring at least 22 people, police and medical sources said, a day after they pushed demonstrations back toward one main square in the Iraqi capital.

“The situation is the same, they’re still firing at people, wounded are coming in,” said Hayder Ghareeb, a volunteer medical worker at a makeshift clinic in Tahrir Square, now the main gathering point for demonstrators in Baghdad.No deaths were immediately reported on Sunday, however, making it one of the calmer days in weeks of unrest that erupted in Baghdad with protests over lack of jobs and services and have spread across much of southern Iraq.

Under pressure from powerful Shi’ite Muslim religious authorities, it has recently pledged more serious change such as electoral reform and has recognized the legitimacy of peaceful protest.

 

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These people are ruthless and barbaric in their methods with dealing with each other. Who are we (US) to think we can enforce our democracy or principals on them. Fatal mistake that will produce no results. Let's get out now. Vietnam again!

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The UN stance from what’s happening there is absolutely disgusting

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