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...fled Baghdad for Stockholm in 1993, moved back in 2003, then returned to Stockholm last summer. He stood at the doorway of the Iraqi prayer hall in the Stockholm suburb of Jakobsberg late one evening. Six taxis were parked along the snowbound sidewalk while the drivers celebrated the Shi'ite holiday of Ashura inside. "The Swedes don't want to hire us" for skilled work, al-Suheil says...
Alaa, 29, left Baghdad in January, a few days after Saddam Hussein was hanged. A group of gunmen had smashed in his front door and ransacked the house. Alaa, a Shi'ite television producer who was at work at the time, believes that Sunni militants wanted to kill him for covering Saddam's trial. And so, as hundreds of Iraqis do each day, Alaa decided to pack up his things and flee. At the time he wasn't sure where he was going or who would take him in. Now he finds himself sharing a two-room apartment with people...
Recently, that wound threatened to rip open. One evening in December, thousands of protesters from the Shi'ite Muslim group Hizballah and other factions threatened to storm the gates of the Sérail, calling the Western-backed Siniora a traitor for allegedly undermining Hizballah during its war with Israel four months earlier. Only a week before, masked gunmen had assassinated one of Siniora's Cabinet colleagues, Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel. For hours, nobody knew if the mob would overwhelm the guards, enter the building, drag Siniora and his ministers from office - and perhaps ignite a new civil...
...million Lebanese in Martyrs' Square demanded the withdrawal of Syrian military forces that had dominated the country for three decades. Lebanon remains deeply divided, however, a fact made plain in January on what some are calling Black Thursday, when a cafeteria shoving match between Sunni and Shi'ite students at a Beirut university set off a day of clashes that tore across the capital...
...from Kurdistan, where there is deep distrust of Baghdad's politicians. Under the law, companies can deal with both the central Ministry of Oil, as well as regional entities. But that concession has provoked intense anxiety that Iraq could break apart, if some regions - or perhaps even powerful Shi'ite clans in southern Iraq - calculate that they can finance autonomous states from their massive oil deposits...