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i leaders took concrete steps to keep demonstrations peaceful by searching protesters for weapons. Even after eight Sunni protesters were killed in Fallujah in January, both sides managed to de-escalate. That all changed last week. It began in the town of Hawija, near Kirkuk, where Iraqi Security Forces
e 2010 parliamentary elections, in which no one party won a clear mandate. It survived last year's arrest of the bodyguards of Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi on charges of terrorism, as well as his subsequent trial in absentia and death sentence. And although domestic political issues galvanized Sunni ar
more than twice that many days of protest in Irag have gone almost unnoticed in the United States. Iraqi army troops killed five Sunni protesters in Fallujah on Jan. 25, after a month of anti-government protests in Anbar, Nineveh and Salahuddin provinces and elsewhere for which thousands turned out. Al-Qae
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027116 →wi, who is Sunni, arrested for alleged terrorist activities on Dec. 20 — almost exactly one year after he ordered the arrest of Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi’s security detail. Hashimi fled to Turkey and is unlikely to return soon to Iraq, where he was sentenced to death after Maliki demanded his trial in
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027117 →more than twice that many days of protest in Iraq have gone almost unnoticed in the United States. Iraqi army troops killed five Sunni protesters in Fallujah on Jan. 25, after a month of anti-government protests in Anbar, Nineveh and Salahuddin provinces and elsewhere for which thousands turned out. Al-Qae
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028742 →awi, who is Sunni, arrested for alleged terrorist activities on Dec. 20 — almost exactly one year after he ordered the arrest of Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi's security detail. Hashimi fled to Turkey and is unlikely to return soon to Iraq, where he was sentenced to death after Maliki demanded his trial in
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028743 →Entities connected to both Fallujah and Tariq al-Hashimi

Barack Obama
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Baghdad
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Bashar al-Assad
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United States
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Joe Biden
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al-Qaeda
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Tunisia
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Lebanon
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Marc Rich
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Cairo
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George W. Bush
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Jeffrey Epstein
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Tehran
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Mosul
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Mohamed Morsi
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Hosni Mubarak
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Maliki
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Damascus
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