Protesters Attack U.S. Embassy in Iraq, Chanting ‘Death to America’

By artappraiser on Tue, 12/31/2019 - 1:16pm |

By Falih Hassa, Ben Hubbard & Alissa J. Rubin @ NYTimes.com, Dec. 31, 2019, Updated 1:21 p.m. ET and with video, and continuing with edits and updates

BAGHDAD — Protesters broke into the heavily guarded compound of the United States Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday and set fires inside in anger over American airstrikes that killed 24 members of an Iranian-backed militia over the weekend.

The protesters did not enter the main embassy buildings and later withdrew from the compound, joining thousands of protesters and militia fighters outside who chanted “Death to America,” threw rocks, covered the walls with graffiti and demanded that the United States withdraw its forces from Iraq.

The situation remained combustible, with protesters vowing to camp indefinitely outside the sprawling compound, the world’s largest embassy of any nation. Their ability to storm the most heavily guarded zone in Baghdad suggested that they had received at least tacit permission from Iraqi security officials sympathetic to their demands [....]

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WATCH: Thousands of Iraqi protesters furious over deadly U.S. airstrikes storm the American Embassy in Baghdad, breaking down doors and setting fires https://t.co/zS7HQXjDyF pic.twitter.com/MO3UnaG06q
— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 31, 2019

by artappraiser on Tue, 12/31/2019 - 7:04pm

Managing Editor of Military Times:

500 troops from 82nd headed to Kuwait, a defense official tells me. Another 4,000 headed there after. What happens when they get there still unknown. More later at @MilitaryTimes
— Howard Altman (@haltman) January 1, 2020

This by the way merely confirms @LucasFoxNews who popped this 45 minutes ago....
— Howard Altman (@haltman) January 1, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 12/31/2019 - 7:10pm

New year (and new decade) off to an impressive start with Khamenei and Trump going at each other on Twitter
— Borzou Daragahi (@borzou) January 1, 2020

by artappraiser on Wed, 01/01/2020 - 5:18am

U.S. just killed the leaders of the Iranian IRGC (top military commander) and of the Kataib Hezbollah:

Wow https://t.co/BxMhAFEcDG
— Borzou Daragahi (@borzou) January 3, 2020

Now would be a good time for a US statement... https://t.co/TaIxu5fbel
— Boris Zilberman (@rolltidebmz) January 3, 2020

BREAKING: US and Iraqi sources confirm the killing of Iran's top military commander Qassem Suleimani in Iraq
— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) January 3, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 01/02/2020 - 8:10pm

confirmed @ Newsweek, via U.S. official, commander of Iran Quds force killed along with others:

My latest alongside @JimLaPorta UPDATE: @Newsweek can confirm that, along with the Popular Mobilization Forces' Mohammed Redha al-Jabari and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Iran Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani was also killed in Baghdad, per U.S. official. https://t.co/yXesTROfIO pic.twitter.com/46BLDgHWE9(@ShaolinTom) January 3, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 01/02/2020 - 8:16pm

Hard to understate how big this is

• Qassem Suleimani is Iran’s most powerful mil figure in Region
• He runs Iran’s proxies in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq
• Both men designated by US as Terrorist
• Muhandis was at US embassy attack protest, calls himself “Suleimani soldier”
— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) January 3, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 01/02/2020 - 8:21pm

AP reports: Iraqi state TV, officials: Gen. Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds force, has been killed in an airstrike.https://t.co/fO71fOnmpY

(heads up: NOW would be a good time to catch up on Iran and Iraq news, this is huge)
— Shaya Tayefe Mohajer (@Shaya_in_LA) January 3, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 01/02/2020 - 8:24pm

NYTimes:

Breaking News: Iraqi TV reported that an attack at Baghdad’s airport killed the senior Iranian commander Qassim Suleimani, at a tense moment for the U.S. and Iran https://t.co/PJcAkHlWUq
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 3, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 01/02/2020 - 8:39pm

Democratic Senator from Connecticut asking whether this was a US assassination without appropriate authorisation from Congress https://t.co/M488unv1Gl
— Julian Borger (@julianborger) January 3, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 01/02/2020 - 9:13pm

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