The government stopped "Facebook" and "Twitter" .. And reinforcements by 30 thousand troops to the south

After the escalation of the popular protests in the southern regions, the press sources said the government resorted to stopping the sites of Facebook and Twitter in most Iraqi cities, to prevent what he described as "fueling sedition and provoke people to demonstrate," pointing at the same time to the high number of security forces that arrived in protest areas , To more than 30 thousand elements.

The sources said on July 14, 2018 that "armored units deployed in large parts of the city of Basra, specifically in the presence of protesters, who erected a large marquee in the ways of passage of trucks and oil tankers and goods to Iraqi ports in the waters of the Arabian Gulf.

According to local residents in Basra, units have been deployed in Zubayr, Umm Qasr, Haretha, Shat al-Arab, Sadiq, Safwan and the center of the city of Basra itself. The demonstrations were concentrated in certain areas of Basra, amid the continued influx of residents, while police imposed a curfew on people and cars around the government compound in Najaf, fearing the expected storming of government buildings tonight.

Security forces tried to anticipate any advance of demonstrators towards the area of ​​government buildings by firing into the air and deploying military vehicles and water cannons near the Al-20 Square in Najaf.

Meanwhile, the Reuters reported that the demonstrators stormed the building of Karbala province on Saturday evening without giving further details.

In Maysan, several cities are still witnessing widespread protests, and the same in the city of Hindi in the province of Karbala.

Meanwhile, a member of the Southern Tribal Council, Sheikh Aziz al-Mayahi, said in a press statement that "the demonstrations will continue until people sincerely seek from those responsible for the administration of the country."

"There are young people who have been killed in the last two days, which complicates things more," he said, adding that "attacking government interests and public funds acts are individual and incorrect, and can not be accepted."

On the other hand, press sources reported that the Prime Minister, Haider Abadi, agreed to isolate the army commander in Basra, Major General Jamil al-Shammari from his post, as well as to conduct an urgent investigation into the shooting of demonstrators, as part of a package of decisions will be announced in the coming hours.

An official in the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers said that the suspension of Facebook and Twitter was part of the decisions of the security crisis cell, which held its meeting late on Friday night, and that the Ministry of Communications was mandated to oblige the service providers in Iraq by the resolution.

In the meantime, a spokesman for the Ministry of Transport of the Government of the Territory, Omid Mohammed Saleh, "The Iraqi government's decision to cut the service of social networking site Facebook and the region also, and that it will be temporarily," noting that "the Iraqi government is also pressing to cut the lines of the Internet



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Well this is telling me a whole lot, when doing my reading I usually I see a lot more, most of my papers are not posting much out there. Plus there is not any economics news, that I can find, that really stinks.

Lets watch and see what happens in the next few days, just remember we have seen this to many times in the past and they do usually solve the problem or problems.

This is all because of the protests that is going on




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