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...covered every day of Saddam's trial and his execution. Of course people wanted me dead. I ran." Three weeks later, Alaa, 29 - like many interviewed for this article, he did not want his last name to be used - peers out of a high-rise apartment building in Stockholm at sidewalks carpeted with fresh snow, a disorienting contrast with the carnage he has left behind...
...compared to the numbers in the Middle East. Yet Sweden provides perhaps the finest glimpse into how the war is driving the country's large middle class out of Iraq, devastating entire professions. It takes good connections and lots of money - $8,000 to $15,000 - to get to Stockholm from Baghdad, but now it is not just the élite who are willing to pay the price. "At first we saw the really wealthy people arrive here," says Paal Aarsaether, unhcr spokesman in Stockholm. "But over the last year we're seeing a lot of middle-class people...
...Iraqis in Stockholm fresh from Baghdad say the war is stripping Iraq of its skill base, driving out the people needed to rebuild the country's infrastructure, run businesses, and staff schools and hospitals. "For months people have been walking around Baghdad saying, 'Where's this person? Where's that person?'" says Raya, a 37-year-old doctor, a few hours after arriving in Stockholm. "Then someone will say: 'They've left; and they have left; and they have left.'" Raya, who did not want her last name published for fear her parents in Baghdad would be targeted, says...
...kill me if I didn't graduate 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...
...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 at her school were kidnapped. "There is constant danger in Iraq, especially in Baghdad," says Turky. "Nobody can live...