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CBS News BAGHDAD — There were thousands of heavily armed
police out today, new blast walls had sprung up overnight and there were
rows of armored personnel carriers — even tanks — in the streets.
Protesters storming the Green Zone last weekend.
Last weekend thousands of protesters stormed the Green Zone and over ran parliament, accusing the government of corruption.
It looked like an uprising.
Today the massive security cordon meant his supporters were confined to Sadr City, the sprawling Shia neighborhood on the edge of Baghdad.
It hasn’t changed much in the years since the war has ended.
“They don’t care about us,” said Said, who was in Al Batad and said
he’d taken part in the protest. “Look at the poor the hungry, there’s no
electricity, no drinkable water, and no jobs. How shameful is that?”
Hakim al Zamani, Moqtada al Sadr’s deputy, said the country’s problems had to be addressed.
“For 13 years all we’ve gotten are bombings, corruption, very little security, a weak economy and ISIS,” he said. “We have run out of time, we cannot wait any longer.”
The Pentagon said that 25 more Marines have been sent to the U.S. Embassy in the Green Zone as a precaution.
