New deaths bring toll to 440 dead, 20,000 wounded since anti-government rallies erupted. FMTNews
Security forces have tried to snuff out demonstrations with tear gas canisters, live rounds and even machine guns.
There were fears this week of a potential spiral into chaos after supporters of the Hashed al-Shaabi security force flexed their muscles by flooding the square.Armed men on pick-up trucks attacked a large building where protesters had been camped out for weeks, forcing them out amid volleys of gunfire.
One female medic at a field clinic nearby said she had treated at least five people for light knife wounds.After the attack, dozens of young men could be seen rushing away of the building in a panic, jumping over concrete barriers to the relative safety of Tahrir. They included Qais al-Khazali, leader of the Hashed’s prominent Asaib Ahl al-Haq brigade, and Hussein Falil Aziz al-Lami, who heads the network’s powerful security apparatus.The measures would seize any assets they have in the US and keep them from travelling there.
Some carried portraits of Hashed fighters killed battling Islamic State group jihadists as well as of Sistani.Protesters were apprehensive about the sudden influx and on Friday erected new checkpoints around the square to search Iraqis arriving in Tahrir. Protesters had long complained of being monitored in Tahrir, fearing it would lead to kidnapping, or worse.
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