"We don’t want to change the government, because we elected them, but we want them to get to work!"

Protesters took to the streets across Iraq on Friday to mark a "Day of Rage", with thousands flooding Baghdad's Tahrir Square as fourteen protesters died in clashes with police in two northern cities.
  
Protesters in the capital were forced to walk to the rally site as security forces imposed a vehicle ban, a day after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said the demonstrations were being organized by Al-Qaeda militants and loyalists of deposed dictator Saddam Hussein. Maliki urged protesters not to participate.

  
Clashes between security forces and demonstrators at rallies in the northern city of Mosul and the town of Hawija left fourteen dead and dozens wounded, while separate rallies in north and west Iraq left a total of eight others injured.
  
In the capital, troops and police were deployed in force at Tahrir Square, where around 5,000 demonstrators had gathered, and security forces erected concrete blast walls to block entrance to Jumhuriyah bridge, which connects the demonstration site to Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone.

Friday's rally has been organized on social networking website Facebook by groups such as "Iraqi Revolution of Rage" and "Change, Liberty and a Real Democracy."
  
Most of the protesters at the square were young men, with some holding placards that read, "No silence, we must speak"."We don't want to change the government, because we elected them, but we want them to get to work!" said Darghan Adnan, a 24-year-old student at the capital's Tahrir Square. "We want them to enforce justice, we want them to fix the roads, we want them to fix the electricity, we want them to fix the water."