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pinto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-10-07 02:32 AM
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Doors closing on Iraqi displaced
Edited on Wed Oct-10-07 02:33 AM by pinto
Source: BBC

Doors closing on Iraqi displaced


Iraq's provinces say they are not able to cope with the refugee influx


An increasing number of Iraqi provinces are refusing entry to refugees fleeing violence in other parts of the country, the UN refugee agency has warned.

The head of the UNHCR Iraq Support Unit told the BBC up to 11 governors were restricting access because they lacked resources to look after the refugees.

Andrew Harper warned that, with no imminent end to the displacement, Iraq was becoming a "pressure cooker".

The UNHCR recently said more than 2.2m Iraqis had become internally displaced.

It estimates a further 2.2m have fled to neighbouring states, particularly Syria and Jordan, since the US-led invasion in 2003.



Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7036949.stm
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Kolesar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-10-07 05:05 AM
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1. Suppose the young people will end up "radicalized" by this experience?
Become jihadists???

Maybe we should have a program to relocate them to wealthy GOP zipcodes in the US where they can go to school with the darling young republicans.
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-10-07 09:10 AM
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2. so much wrong over there, so many layers. Like and onion the size of cleveland.
we fucked them and moron* fucked us.
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sicksicksick_N_tired Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-10-07 09:18 AM
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3. Desperate circumstances often produce desperate behavior.
Why isn't this problem a primary part of the reconstruction efforts? Uh, nevermind. ;(
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