Clashes Erupt In Baghdad After Iraqi Cleric Moqtada Sadr Resigns, 12 Dead
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Moqtada Sadr's supporters have been calling for parliament to be dissolved and for new elections.Baghdad: Twelve protesters were killed Monday after supporters of cleric Moqtada Sadr stormed the government palace in Baghdad's Green Zone as the powerful Shiite leader said he was quitting politics.Shots were fired in the fortified area which houses government buildings as well as diplomatic missions, an AFP correspondent said, as tensions soared amid an escalating political crisis that has left Iraq without a new government, prime minister or president for months.Medics told AFP that 12 Sadr supporters had been shot dead and 270 other protesters were hurt -- some with bullet wounds and others suffering tear gas inhalation.Witnesses said earlier that Sadr loyalists and supporters of ...