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    As Iraq reels from US strike, its politicians turn against Washington

    by Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times Jan 04, 2020 5 minutes

    BEIRUT - The crowd thronged around the two coffins, one draped in the Iraqi tricolor and the other wrapped in the red, white and green of the Iranian flag. Behind them, thousands trudged alongside a procession of trucks, chanting, "There is no god but God, and America is the enemy of God."

    Among those at the fore in Baghdad's Hurriya Square on Saturday morning were Iraqi government officials once considered friends of the U.S.: Adel Abdul Mahdi, Iraq's caretaker prime minister; Nouri Maliki, a former longtime prime minister pushed into power by Washington; Faleh Fayyad, who met with U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper in October. They and other Iraqi politicians were in attendance to mourn the death of those killed Friday in a targeted U.S. drone strike near Baghdad's international airport.

    Their presence was but one measure of

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