man Mohamed Ali once took care of six living children and an orphaned niece. In 2007 she lost two sons in a neighborhood wave of militia violence against Iraqis suspected of cooperating with Americans.
In March Ra'ed Al Kerari, her eldest, was abducted, his body never found. Four months later, the body of her second-oldest son, Mohamed Al Kerari, showed up in a pile of garbage in Al Dawra, Baghdad.
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The problems of refugees from Iraq is sometimes noted in mainstream media, but not often followed up or emphasized. This article, for example deals with a limited section of the problem - well, it is a women's publication. It doesn't get into the US failure to aid Iraqis who helped us (apparently we intend to allow more people to come to the US, but that effort is lagging), or who were forced out by inter religious conflicts. Nor does it cover internally displaced people. But it adds one more drop to the bucket of knowledge about the refugees.
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