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A crowd gathered as emergency response teams picked through the wreckage. Security forces closed off the heavily guarded Green Zone, where a number of diplomatic compounds are located, amid calls for protesters to storm the U.S. embassy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two U.S. officials familiar with the matter said that a senior Kataib Hezbollah commander was targeted in a U.S. strike on Wednesday in Iraq. They were not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two officials with Iran-backed militias in Iraq said that one of the three killed was Wissam Mohammed \u201cAbu Bakr\u201d al-Saadi, the commander in charge of Kataib Hezbollah\u2019s operations in Syria. 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