WASHINGTON, May 6 (UPI) -- At least 25 additional Marines were deployed to the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad after Shiite Muslim activists stormed Iraq's Green Zone and took over the Parliament building last weekend.
The Marines arrived at the embassy, located in the International Zone of Baghdad with other embassies and government buildings, on the request of the U.S. State Department. Already there are more than 150 Marines and other private security contractors protecting the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.