Christians, Muslims flee Baghdad for Kurdistan

[lligrd]

Christians, Muslims flee Baghdad for Kurdistan By Shamal Aqrawi
Sun Jan 21, 11:43 PM ET

ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - A Christian shopkeeper who walks with a limp, Adison Brikha fled Baghdad after he was beaten in his shop. He made it to Arbil, in relatively peaceful Iraqi Kurdistan -- but now he's begging for work.

"The gunmen broke into my shop in New Baghdad district and beat me brutally. It was obvious that Christians are no longer wanted in Baghdad," said Brikha, who can barely pay the rent for a tiny house in Arbil for his family of five.

"I used to own a shop and now I'm begging people to let me work even as a servant or a laborer, but no one will take me because my foot is crippled," he said, through tears.

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[leesa]

1. Thank God that terrible Saddam is dead. Things are going so well now.

I remember someone saying he used an iron fist but they suspected it was the only way to keep the tigers in their bamboo cages (terrible paraphrase).

[rodeodance]

2. i so feel for these people, We have unleased a brutal storm.

[The Stranger]

3. So if the Christians and Muslims flee Baghdad, who is left there?

Atheists?

[lligrd]

4. Halliburton? - nt

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