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Iraq’s anti-terror agency on Monday unveiled the reality of a “military coup” in the country, which has been the scene of mass protests for nearly two months.
The Joint Operations Command said in a statement published by the Security Information Center that “the official page of the counterterrorism agency has been hacked by the weak souls and that the procedures are continuing to prosecute the perpetrators.” .
In turn, the head of the fight against terrorism, Talib Shaghati Kanani, he “denies the news on social networking sites that impersonate the anti-terrorism agency,” according to the Iraqi news agency “conscious”.
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He stressed that “the counterterrorism apparatus was and still is the wall of the homeland and protector of the people and the democratic political system and the Iraqi state and its national institutions.”
Since early October, there have been mass protests in Iraq demanding better living conditions, fighting corruption, dismissing the government, dissolving parliament and holding early elections, and at least 350 people have been killed since the country’s biggest wave of protests since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
