Deadly protests rock Iraq

Al Jazeera has obtained pictures which appear to show police firing at protesters in the Iraqi city of Fallujah.

At least 12 people are reported to have been killed as a series of anti-government rallies were held across the country.

Al Jazeera's Jane Araff reports from the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

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[ReleaseJulianAssange]

@mudshovel Iraq a democracy? Why? Because the us is there and invaded a sovereign nation and killed its rightful leader Sadam Hussein? Are you blind? The iraqi gov. is not in the greenzone its the us. They have build 14 permanent military basses in iraq communication, airfields, armaments while at the same time building a us embassy complex in the green zone as big as the vatican. The us has corrupted the political puppet leaders/process and put in place a fake gov. The iraqis want the us out!!

[Jorgelicious1]

1:27 there military lookin pretty good now..

[shyamranger]

@ramzi45 i don't know of others but Sadam and Gaddaffi was rightful leader of there Nation. Hosni Mubarak is puppet of US. Now there will be more worst situation on there nation of sure.

[TuRkmEnOkaN]

@Jorgelicious1

why? cause they wearing some "cool" american call of duty clothes?

you damn cunts...

so if they wear a potato sack they would be shit soldiers?

[freediver57]

@grimblebrumble17889 Germany is under control of USA. Yet they have democracy at some lower levels. It is the same about Japan and South Korea. Change to democracy takes time and it may go under supervising of other countries. Otherwise people would get a corrupted leaders and no democracy at all, like it is in Russia after collapse of SU as well as in Egypt. Uprising of people in Egypt changed nothing, actually. Sure, it is a good sign that people are active and protesting but to some limit.

[grimblebrumble17889]

@freediver57 That is why they are protesting. They are protesting the US puppet government of Iraq. They want democracy, what they dont want is to be a US protectarate and source of revenue.

[freediver57]

Wow, they do not like democracy? May be they want a dictator like Sadam to rule them? During Sadam such protests would be suppressed and the participants would be jailed or killed. During these unrest only a few were wounded. Probably by stones thrown by other protesters. This is democracy to give people freedom to protest.

[ramzi45]

@ReleaseJulianAssange

saddam is not the rightful iraqi leader if he was, then hosni mubarak is the rightful leader of egypt, and gadaffi of libya and ben ali for tunisia

[nortfishlsweetnr]

@MinisterAilingTongue America doesn't own democracy, we don't have the power to give it, democracy is a force of nature. there is no justification for the lives lost or the cost. All we can hope is that a child born in Iraq today faces a brighter future & a better quality of life twenty years from now. That slow & painful process belongs to the Iraqi people, but its the best tribute we can HOPE for those lost. i agree. Lets get out of their way & focus on the future of our "democracy".

[nortfishlsweetnr]

I don't believe that the bush administrations goal was to bring democracy to Iraq, that propaganda was meant for the american public in the absence of "intelligence" to support that Saddam ever posed a significant threat to the US or its people & to this day has never been linked to 9/11. That said. even a broken clock is right twice a day. the Iraqi people are going to demand a voice in how their country is run & we will support their right to tell us to get bent or expose our own hypocrisy.