{"id":344,"date":"2003-12-15T17:50:14","date_gmt":"2003-12-16T00:50:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-12-15T17:50:14","modified_gmt":"2003-12-16T00:50:14","slug":"gis-beat-kill-arrest-disperse-pro-saddam-protesters-in-tikrit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/15\/gis-beat-kill-arrest-disperse-pro-saddam-protesters-in-tikrit\/","title":{"rendered":"GIs Beat, Kill, Arrest, Disperse Pro-Saddam Protesters in Tikrit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/photos\/perm\/arrest-student.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"203\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"7\" hspace=\"15\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&#038;storyID=3991796\">U.S. soldiers Monday used batons to break up a demonstration in Tikrit to protest against the capture of Saddam Hussein near his hometown.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>About 700 demonstrators gathered outside Tikrit University chanting pro-Saddam slogans.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.scotsman.com\/latest.cfm?id=2301592\">Soldiers shouted back &#8220;Saddam is in our jail.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shorty afterwards, US soldiers charged the protest, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&#038;storyID=3991796\">beating and arresting some protesters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.scotsman.com\/latest.cfm?id=2301592\">Lt. Col. Steven Russell said that<br \/>\n<font size=\"4\">&#8220;protests are not authorized and that participation in protests is punishable.&#8221;<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, there are numerous reports of anti-Saddam demonstrations that are not being broken up, even though they are also not authorized.  Many of these protesters are <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/031215\/photos_us_rank_afp\/031215004322_6nz2qt6n_photo0\">freely firing guns in celebration without any arrests.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><B>UPDATE 12\/17\/03:<\/B>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.team4news.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=1565970\">US troops killed several protesters as pro-Saddam demonstrations continued across Iraq.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. soldiers Monday used batons to break up a demonstration in Tikrit to protest against the capture of Saddam Hussein near his hometown. About 700 demonstrators gathered outside Tikrit University chanting pro-Saddam slogans. Soldiers shouted back &#8220;Saddam is in our jail.&#8221; Shorty afterwards, US soldiers charged the protest, beating and arresting some protesters. Lt. Col. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}