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NINA:
Sadrist MP Riad Ghali criticized the raid on Hawija sit-in, which killed and wounded many protesters.
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Al-Baghdad TV
Iraqi MP Ahmed al-Mesari: Maliki had personally decided the raid. Maliki had threatened that would end the demonstrations. This attack was the way its words were executed. I hold him responsible for all the blood has been shed.
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Parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi said at a news conference that science and technology minister Abdulkarim al-Samarraie told him by telephone that he too was quitting.
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A security source said to NINA : “The raid on Hawija resulted in 32 demonstrators being killed and 80 more wounded.”
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National Iraqi News Agency
Sheikh Abdul Malik al-Saadi blamed the government of Nouri al-Maliki for the shedding of blood of Iraqi people by heavily armed attack on demonstrators in Hawija today.
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Human Rights Commission in the Iraqi Parliament condemned the killings in Hawija and called for calm on all sides.
The Iraqi Army has arrested a number of protesters.
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The Iraqiya Slate is going to hold a lengthy meeting on Tuesday evening at residence of the Slate’s head, Aiyad Alawi to discuss the possibility of the withdrawal from the government and the parliament following Hawija events.
Parliamentary source told Iraqi News “The meeting will determine the continuity of the Slate within the political process.”
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Washington Post: Iraqi security forces backed by helicopters raided a Sunni protest camp before dawn Tuesday, prompting clashes that left at least 23 people dead in an escalation likely to fuel hostilities between the Shiite-led government and minority Sunnis that have been raging for months.
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Iranian regime’s Minister of Intelligence Heydar Moslehi who visited Iraq in early April said he had visited Iraq to do the following:
1- To “seriously follow up the expulsion of PMOI from Iraq”
2- To provide the government of Iraq “with our 35 years experience to provide security in that country.”
Al-Taqeer TV declared that Sheikh al-Tamimi, spokesman for the protesters said we would continue our protest.
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According to Reuters hours after the raid, Sunni tribal members attacked and briefly seized control of three checkpoints in villages around Hawija before armed forces backed by helicopter gunships took them back, military sources and tribal leaders said.
Al-Taqeer TV reported that up on the orders by issued by Maliki Iraqi warplanes have departed Baghdad to bomb Hawija.
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Hassan Alvani said Iraq is facing a much bloody situation in next coming days.
Al-Jazeera reported that a number of forces attacking the protesters in Hawija were speaking Persian.
Hassan Alavi, member of Iraqi Parliament said Ayad Allawi and al-Nujaifi are meeting to discuss attack by Maliki forces on Hawija.
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The residents of Hawija that were attacked today had been under siege by the Iraqi forces in last four days.
An Iraqi expert told Al-Jazeera that the attack is similar to the attacks on Camp Ashraf by forces of Nouri al-Maliki with the help of Iranian regime’s Quds Forces.
Mohammad Tamim has tried until late last night to stop Maliki from attacking the people in Hawija.
Muhammad Ali Tamim Jubouri, the Minister of Education of Iraq has resigned.
According to local media reports, simultaneous with the developments in Havija in other cities across Iraq shops are closed in protest against al-Maliki.
Iraqi religious leader Abdulmalik al-Saadi said whoever be killed in defending their country is considered a martyr.
Iraqi religious leader Abdulmalik al-Saadi called on all Arab and Islamic countries to break silence about the killings in Iraq.
A prominent Iraqi religious leader Abdulmalik al-Saadi said in a statement that “It is the right of Iraqi people to defend themselves against attack.
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Killing of people Hwija is continuing.
Al-Jazeera TV reported the number of casualties are at least 50 killed and over 200 injured.
