Protesters shot in US occupied Iraq during "Day of Rage" demonstrations

Iraqi's have taken to the streets in thousands in yet another "Day of Rage" in the Arab world.  According to Al Jazeera 6 protesters have been killed by security forces. The protesters are fed up with no water, no electricity, food shortages  and corruption in the government.  This is in a country where the US is building its biggest embassy, the mother of all US embassies.

The western media is saying that the demonstrations in Iraq are for "reform" but As'ad AbuKhalil  in a posting on the Angry Arab blog writes, "In Mosul, a restive, ethnically mixed city in the north, two people were killed when local security forces fired on demonstrators who tried to storm two government buildings.

In Baghdad, hundreds of people walked through the sprawling city to Tahrir Square, which has been a gathering point for demonstrations over the last few weeks, shouting and waving flags in a tumultuous call for government reform."  Reform? People did not chant for reform? They chanted for the overthrow of regime even in Iraq.  The most oft repeated chant (borrowed from Tunisia) all over the Arab world is: "People want the downfall of the regime."

Al Jazeera reports that there has been a "violent standoff between the protesters and the riot police on the bridge that leads to the heavily fortified Green Zone."

Iraqi prime minister has been telling the people that the protesters are supporters of Sadaam Hussein but this is not true according to reports,  "If [prime minister Nuri] al-Maliki does not listen, we will continue this protest. He told everyone that we are Sadamists, but that is not right. We are normal Iraqi people." Al Jazeera quotes one protester as saying.

"We are free young men and we are not belonging to a certain ideological movement but we ask for our simple legitimate demands that include the right of education and the right of decent life,”another adds.

So in US occupied Iraq, the authorities are also firing live ammunition at people protesting for a decent life. As we pointed out in an earlier blog, Al Qaeda must be going nuts.  This is not the method of this crowd and they have opposed the uprisings and find themselves in the same bed with the dictators the Zionists and the Shia clerics.  They are all opposed to a strengthened Arab working class, democratic rights, trade Unions and other such measures.