{"id":50364,"date":"2019-12-31T08:09:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T13:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50364"},"modified":"2019-12-31T08:09:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T13:09:20","slug":"iraq-protestors-storm-us-embassy-in-baghdad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50364","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Protestors Storm US Embassy In Baghdad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/iraq-protestors-storm-us-embassy-baghdad\">Iraq Protestors Storm US Embassy In Baghdad<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thousands of Iraqi protestors attacked various parts of the US embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/us-conducts-air-strikes-iraq-and-syria-targeting-iran-backed-milita-after-us-contractor\">US airstrikes killed dozens<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/did-pompeo-go-reservation-iraq-attack\">Iran-backed Iraqi militia<\/a>\u00a0over the weekend. The attack on the embassy has been widely documented on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=us%20embassy%20iraq&amp;src=typed_query&amp;f=video\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0with videos and pictures showing the destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AuroraIntel\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1160050665479127041\/hgMLhUa3_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Protestors are currently breaking into the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/US?src=hash\">#US<\/a> Embassy in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Baghdad?src=hash\">#Baghdad<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iraq?src=hash\">#Iraq<\/a>. Kata\u2019ib <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Hezbollah?src=hash\">#Hezbollah<\/a> supporters have managed to break through the first security gate (photo via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thestevennabil\">@thestevennabil<\/a>) flags can be seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AuroraIntel\/status\/1211955711514689537\/photo\/1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/ENG7KT4XYAAdCuj?format=jpg&amp;name=small\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AuroraIntel\/status\/1211955711514689537\/photo\/1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/ENG7KV-XYAAB48u?format=jpg&amp;name=360x360\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AuroraIntel\/status\/1211955711514689537\/photo\/1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/ENG7KQNXkAI0Ip5?format=jpg&amp;name=360x360\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One freelance journalist recorded the moment when the angry mob chanted, &#8220;No, no to America, no, no to Israel&#8221; outside of the embassy in Baghdad&#8217;s Green Zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sinansm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/866940744900251649\/hgwirbEJ_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;No, no to America, no, no to Israel.&#8221; outside the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/US?src=hash\">#US<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Embassy?src=hash\">#Embassy<\/a> in Baghdad&#8217;s Green Zone. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iraq?src=hash\">#Iraq<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq Protestors Storm US Embassy In Baghdad Thousands of Iraqi protestors attacked various parts of the US embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday after\u00a0US airstrikes killed dozens\u00a0of\u00a0Iran-backed Iraqi militia\u00a0over the weekend. The attack on the embassy has been widely documented on\u00a0Twitter\u00a0with videos and pictures showing the destruction. Protestors are currently breaking into the #US Embassy in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,442,4318],"class_list":["post-50364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-baghdad","tag-iraq","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50365,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50364\/revisions\/50365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}