Pan-Arab Revolt Spreads to Iraq http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/06-2

Iraqis demonstrated Sunday, calling for basic services and the resignation of government officials as unrest swept much of the Arab world. Eight years after the U.S.-led invasion, Iraq's infrastructure remains severely damaged. The country suffers a chronic water shortage, electricity supply is intermittent and sewage collects in the streets. In the impoverished Baghdad district of Bab al-Sham, engineer Furat al-Janabi said: "Even during the Middle Ages, people were not living in this situation." In Basra, demonstrators carried yellow cards symbolizing the warning card a referee carries in a soccer match. Day laborer Nuri Ghadhban said: "I have been looking for kerosene for a month and cannot find it. " Iraqi police opened fire last Thursday to disperse hundreds of residents protesting shortages of power, water and other services near Diwaniya, wounding three people