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...even once those lucky few make it into a neighboring country, many fear deportation back to Iraq and thus do not seek international aid or register with NGOs that could offer help. Instead, relying on friends and family, Iraqi refugees struggle to survive without much external assistance...
...America has also accepted Iraqi refugees, although significantly fewer than you might expect. Granted, travel time to America is longer than the time it takes to cross the border into neighboring countries, I’m still not sure we have any excuse for our measly effort to help alleviate the refugee crisis. The United States has accepted only 496 of the 4.2 million displaced persons in this war. And even though President Bush has promised to issue a few more visas and allow a few thousand more Iraqis in, it is clear to me that he doesn?...
...Coalition out of the city. That's just what the militias did with the British in Basra, leaving the city up for grabs for an all-out fight for power, an intra-sect bloodbath that Sunni extremists would only love to hasten and exploit. With reporting by TIME's Iraqi staff in the South
Even without these new sectarian elements, clashes between Shi'a factions have made Diwaniyah a recent flashpoint in Iraq even as other areas, most notably cities in Anbar Province, have calmed down. The local government and security forces of Diwaniyah are largely controlled by the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC) and its armed wing, the Badr Corps, who are challenged almost daily in the streets by members of the rival Jaish al Mahdi, the militia loyal to cleric Moqtada al Sadr. (The SIIC was formerly known as the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, with the initials SCIRI.) While...
...Aziz al Hakim two weeks ago in Iran, the power grab plays out daily on the streets of southern cities such as Diwaniyah. "What's happening in this town is like a political duel over who's going to govern," said Ali al Mayali, a Sadrist member of the Iraqi Parliament. "It's a fight to control the street." Fueling that fight, Mayali said, is money and other support from neighboring countries. He would not point fingers. While U.S. officials point to the presence of Iranian-trained cells of both Badr and Sadr militias in Diwaniyah, residents talk also...