16,000 at the US embassy in bagdad...........from alarabiya.....
"Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Thursday set doubts over a complete withdrawal by the U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of the year.
In an exclusive interview aired by Al Arabiya, Sadr said he would resist any American presence in Iraq, including a civilian one, beyond year-end when all U.S. forces depart nearly nine years after the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
Sadr, whose Mehdi Army militia once battled U.S. and Iraqi troops, has opposed any U.S. military footprint and his bloc is a key part of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s fragile coalition"......READ MORE
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