http://www.inosmi.ru/world/20110301/166965167.html
After a mass demonstration in another Tahrir Square, this time in Baghdad, Iraq's security forces detained 300 people, among them prominent journalists, artists and intellectuals, some of whom were later beaten up or tortured in custody. At least 29 died nationwide in Iraq's "day of rage". Rather than denounce an ally in Nouri al-Maliki, whose coalition government Washington toiled hard and for many months to create, the US embassy in Baghdad played down the violence.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/01/arab-revolutions-intervention
After Iraq's Day of Rage, a Crackdown on Intellectuals
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/26/AR2011022603345.html
