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...them, because I don't wear a head scarf," says a female engineering lecturer from Baghdad's University of Technology, one of hundreds who packed an Iraqi church service in the industrial town of Södertälje, southwest of Stockholm. Ali Hamid, a 33-year-old Shi'ite ophthalmologist, had a scrawled death threat slipped under his door; he fled last month, leaving behind his wife and two children. Raya, the maternity doctor, says her family decided to leave when her brother found a note tucked under his windshield wiper saying: "Your whole family will be killed because...
...passport. Most Iraqis flee first to Jordan; from there smugglers arrange flights to Istanbul, where it is easy to find illegal European Union passports - "red passports," as the Iraqis call them. Thus equipped, it's into the E.U. and on to Sweden. Suad Turky, a 29-year-old Shi'ite religious student from Baghdad, paid a smuggler $10,000 to secure a false passport and a ticket to Stockholm via Turkey. She says she does not know what nationality passport she was issued. Last month, her cousin Mona Ahmad, a primary school teacher, took the same route, after two teachers...
...week, which may be a sign that the long-feared battle between Kurds and Arabs for control of that oil-rich region is about to begin. That makes it doubly unlikely that the Kurdish brigades will deploy to Baghdad. Furthermore, whack-a-mole happens: there are indications the Shi'ite militias are going to ground or leaving Baghdad to fight elsewhere, perhaps in places like Kirkuk, which means, Senator Reed says, "we'll be doing their job for them, fighting the Sunnis in Baghdad...
...effort to smear one another as agents of outside forces, many Hamas supporters imply that Dahlan and his men are being backed by the U.S. and Israel, while Fatah supporters have been heard shouting "Hamas is Shi'ite, Hamas is Persian" - there is no Shi'ite presence among the Palestinian Muslims, but the reference was designed to draw attention to Iran's backing for Hamas...
...Asked about his worst day at work, and Mohammed quietly recalls an afternoon in August of 2005. A procession of Shi'ite pilgrims were massed on the Aimma Bridge in northern Baghdad, making their way to a golden-domed shrine for holiday celebrations. Suddenly the crowd grew panicky - someone had said there was a suicide bomber among them. A moment later, the line on the bridge erupted into a stampede. Barriers broke, and people plunged into the Tigris River below. Other walls on the bridge held, trapping some under a suffocating crush of people. Mohammed arrived on the scene...