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...that violence has ended, but we are able to move to provincial Iraqi control, and that's thanks to everything you have achieved.' GORDON BROWN, British Prime Minister, informing U.K. soldiers in Basra on Dec. 9 that the last Iraqi area under British control would be handed over to local troops within two weeks...
Reports of Iraqi refugees returning to Baghdad fill Adnan and Noora Awadi with envy and nostalgia. The young couple--whose names have been changed, since they fear reprisals if quoted in the media--fled to the Jordanian capital, Amman, in the summer of 2006 and are yearning to go back to their leafy street in al-Yarmouk, a middle-class neighborhood in Baghdad. Noora, 28, misses their modest one-story home so much, she is sentimental even about its defects. "The sink in the kitchen is cracked, there are termites everywhere, and sometimes in the summer we can smell...
...thousands of other exiled Baghdadis ask every day. The bloody sectarian war that drove them from their city having abated, the temptation to return has grown. In recent weeks, several thousand refugees have journeyed home--mostly from Syria, which has introduced tough new visa regulations designed to send back Iraqis and turn away new waves at the border. Many had simply run through their life's savings and could no longer afford exile. (The Iraqi government has offered cash, free transport from the border and other inducements for those who agree to go back.) Perhaps tellingly, so far there have...
Humanitarian agencies reckon that there are 750,000 Iraqis in Jordan and 1.5 million in Syria. Fewer than 30,000 have returned, and many of them will simply join the ranks of the 2.4 million who are classified as "internally displaced persons"--living in Iraq but unable to return to their old neighborhoods because they are now run by sectarian militias. That hasn't stopped the Iraqi government from declaring that peace is at hand. Welcoming one recent batch of returnees, Ali Dabbagh, spokesman for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, said, "We are eager to have Iraqis return and live...
...temporary and predicated on a massive American presence. They point out that Iraq's political leadership has failed to use the relative calm to engineer any real reconciliation between the majority Shi'ites and the Sunnis. While U.S. troops have battled al-Qaeda in Baghdad, Anbar and Diyala, the Iraqi Parliament has made little progress on critical legislation in more than a year. And partly because of massive government corruption, improvements in basic services like electricity, water and fuel have lagged behind security gains. Baghdad gets an average of eight hours of electricity a day, about half the prewar level...