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Middle East on Edge for Anniversary of US Killing of Soleimani


Middle East on Edge for Anniversary of US Killing of Soleimani
Newsweek
1/2/2021
Tom O Connor
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An Iraqi fighter of the Popular Mobilization Forces stands guard beneath posters displaying portraits of slain Iranian Revolutionary Guards Quds Force commander Major General Qassem Soleimani (R) and Popular Mobilization Forces deputy chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis ahead of the first anniversary of their killing in a U.S. drone strike, in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, on January 2, 2021. The two mens death sent shockwaves throughout the Middle East and raised tensions between longtime foes U.S. and Iran.
The explosive slaying of Iran s leading general as he departed in a convoy from Baghdad International Airport set the stage for a year wrought with worsening tensions between Washington and Tehran, even as both governments were confronting severe outbreaks of the COVID-19 pandemic. ....

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In Iraq, Trump's Blackwater pardons meet with cynicism, fatigue


In Iraq, Trump’s Blackwater pardons meet with cynicism, fatigue
Mustafa Salim, Louisa Loveluck
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An Iraqi man rides a bicycle past a burned a car after Blackwater guards escorting U.S. Embassy officials opened fire in a Baghdad neighborhood in September 2007.
BAGHDAD The 2007 unprovoked killing of Iraqi civilians by Blackwater security contractors is remembered here as one of the most emblematic chapters of America s ruinous invasion.
Yet the news Wednesday that President Trump has pardoned four U.S. contractors convicted of first-degree murder or manslaughter in Baghdad’s Nisour Square made few headlines in Iraq. Often, it met with fatigue or cynicism, briefly surprising but not unexpected. And for many Iraqis, it seemed only a restatement of their decades-long experience with U.S. power. ....

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