Government assisted with 400 marines to confront protesters
Government assisted with 400 marines to confront protesters
Mon, March 21, 2016 11:53
BAGHDAD / Baghdadi News / .. revealed a government source, on Monday announced the arrival of three thousand US troops from the Marines to the Green Zone in central Baghdad.
The source said in an interview with / Baghdadi News / “The Iraqi government has asked the US administration to send troops to protect the Green Zone, after the demonstrators arrived to the gates and set up tents for the sit-in.”
“The total number of US troops so far amounted to three thousand element of the Marines, it is hoped the arrival of a thousand others this evening.”
The source said: “The government is afraid of lining up the Iraqi army and security forces to other protesters in case the protesters storming the gates of the green.”
The Joint Special Operations Command denied the arrival of US troops to the Green Zone, said in a statement it “does not share what appeared in the media and from the arrival of the first of the Marines.”
In contrast, the transfer of witnesses of the population of the Green Zone’s / Baghdadi News / “There is a large spread of non-Iraqi forces in green throughout, since Sunday night,” .anthy 21 / d
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