{"id":50704,"date":"2020-01-24T20:51:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T01:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50704"},"modified":"2020-01-24T20:51:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T01:51:48","slug":"no-no-america-mass-protests-erupt-in-baghdad-demanding-u-s-troops-withdraw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50704","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;No, No America&#8221; &#8211; Mass Protests Erupt In Baghdad Demanding U.S. Troops Withdraw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/no-no-america-mass-protests-erupt-baghdad-demanding-us-troops-withdraw\">&#8220;No, No America&#8221; &#8211; Mass Protests Erupt In Baghdad Demanding U.S. Troops Withdraw<\/a>\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/01\/iraq-protesters-call-troops-exit-200124080811442.html\">Al Jazeera English<\/a>&nbsp;is reporting that thousands of Iraqi protesters have hit the street in Baghdad after the influential Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called for a &#8220;million-strong&#8221; march to demand the withdraw of U.S. coalition forces from the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aliarouzi\/status\/1220665773309530113?s=20\">NBC News Tehran Bureau Chief &amp; correspondent Ali Arouzi&nbsp;<\/a>said hundreds of thousands of protesters marched across Baghdad on Friday, demanding U.S. troops leave the country and close all military bases and embassies.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>100\u2019s of thousands protest in Baghdad, calling for all US troops to leave Iraq, close all bases &amp; embassies, if they don\u2019t they will be considered an occupying force.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C3CqBqpxyD\">pic.twitter.com\/C3CqBqpxyD<\/a>\u2014 Ali Arouzi (@aliarouzi)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aliarouzi\/status\/1220665773309530113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iraqi Prime Minister Presses U.S. to Discuss Troop Withdrawal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Protestors held signs that read &#8220;no, no to America&#8221; and &#8220;no, no to occupation&#8221; amid a sea of nationalism and anti-Americanism erupting across the country&#8217;s capital.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Others were heard on loudspeakers blasting the phrase: &#8220;Death to America. Death to Israel.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The presence of U.S. coalition forces in the country has become a hot subject since President Trump&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/consequences-killing-qasem-soleimani\">launched a drone attack on Iranian general Qassem Soleimani<\/a>&nbsp;and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, killing both, earlier this month near Baghdad International Airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Green Zone, the International Zone of Baghdad and home of the U.S. embassy, has been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/multiple-rockets-fired-baghdad-green-zone-land-near-us-embassy\">peppered<\/a>&nbsp;with rocket attacks since the killing of Soleimani.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iraq&#8217;s parliament voted to expel all foreign troops, including 5,000 U.S. forces from the country, and asked the government to cancel assistance from the U.S.-led coalition that has been working with the Iraqi Army in the eradication of ISIS.\u00a0<\/p>\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>&#8220;No, No America&#8221; &#8211; Mass Protests Erupt In Baghdad Demanding U.S. Troops Withdraw\u00a0 Al Jazeera English&nbsp;is reporting that thousands of Iraqi protesters have hit the street in Baghdad after the influential Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called for a &#8220;million-strong&#8221; march to demand the withdraw of U.S. coalition forces from the country.&nbsp; NBC News Tehran Bureau [&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":[442,522],"class_list":["post-50704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-iraq","tag-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50704","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=50704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50705,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50704\/revisions\/50705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}