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Okay, 12 o'clock, high noon here in San Diego, California on a Saturday.

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That's at Bravo Kilo Actual as we get started here. And let's get right into it, you guys.

I thought I'd start this week with my old stomping ground. Let's go to Iraq and see what's going on there.

If you've been following the news, you've probably seen there's just basically been crazy riots in the streets and security forces in Iraq have repeatedly

turned their weapons on fellow Iraqis this week killing at least 91 I've seen up to

a hundred in other reports and wounding more than 2,000 people as of today's Saturday.

Now, this past week, as I said, tens of thousands of people have been taking to the streets in Baghdad

and across southern Iraq to protest widespread government corruption, unemployment, and a lack of basic services such as

electricity. Now, the Iraqi authorities have lifted a multi-day curfew in Baghdad on Saturday that

many of these anti-government protesters had ignored. And Parliament is set to meet to discuss protesters' demands while senior Iraqi

officials, including the Prime Minister and Parliament Speaker, were set to meet with protesters.

However, this harsh response by the security services suggests that they had been given leeway by the leadership

to take any steps necessary to halt these protests. And it's a reminder that Iraq, writes

the New York Times, which has never experienced an Arab Spring-like rebellion with people pouring

into the streets, had security forces that were trained

to deal with terrorism, but were at a loss to find less lethal ways to control crowds.

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