Sunni Arab Refugees from Iraq Not Returning

Informed Comment by Juan Cole | Mar. 26, 2009 (Opinion)

Many are traumatized, having seen horrific violence against neighbors, friends or family members. One fourth of the families applying for refugee aid reported having had a child kidnapped. Many have been personally threatened by militias who still control their old neighborhood. Sometimes the militias track them down in East Amman and threaten them again. Iraqi Sunnis do not feel safe returning to districts that are now largely Shiite. Mixed families feel ... Full Story »

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Subjects: World, U.S.
Topics: Migration, Middle East, Iraq, War in Iraq
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Mar 26, 2009 - 12:09 AM PDT
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Mar 26, 2009 - 12:09 AM PDT

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Kenneth Sibbett
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 by Kenneth Sibbett - Mar. 26, 2009

While reading this honest and somewhat relevant article, and I looked at the statistics, I couldn't help thing of New Orleans. If you put the numbers from Baghdad and elsewhere, next to New Orleans and elsewhere, it kind of spooky.Also in some ways the reports of violence, except for the bombing, is kind of like the newspapers in New Orleans and elsewhere.

Maybe this is what Bush wanted when he said Democracy in Iraq should be as good as our own. And speaking of the missing 5 billion....,

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Dwight Rousu
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 by Dwight Rousu - Mar. 26, 2009

Juan Cole's Informed Comment provides continuing details of events in the Middle East, even when mainstream corporate media has decided the short term profits of on the site reports no longer pay off.

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Kaizar Campwala
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 by Kaizar Campwala - Mar. 26, 2009
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