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...promise of a new life in the West. Having granted asylum to 2,330 Iraqis in 2005, Sweden received nearly four times that many last year. In December, 1,566 Iraqis arrived, nearly five times the figure in February 2006. And with Iraq's civil war still raging, Swedish officials say they are bracing for a possible 35,000 this year...
...both the new Iraqi arrivals and their Scandinavian hosts, coexistence has not come easily. Swedish officials fret about the potential security risks and the costs posed by a swelling population of displaced Muslims. Although relieved to have escaped the grinding violence of Iraq, Sweden's Iraqis face the prospect of having to rebuild shattered lives and find work in an alien society. For many, the trauma of Iraq is inescapable. Recent arrivals like Alaa say they fear being hunted down by sectarian rivals in Stockholm. "We don't know who is who here," says Alaa. In a Swedish government asylum...
...Stockholm at all qualifies him as one of the lucky ones. Among Western countries, Sweden is unique in allowing entry to all Iraqis who can prove they have fled central and southern Iraq, no matter what their political involvement or how they reached Scandinavia, according to officials at the Swedish Migration Board...
STOCKHOLM Swedish hip-hop fans adore Missy Elliott, which explains why this golden sneaker ($80) from the Adidas Respect M.E. by Missy Elliott line...
Sweden The E.U. report, which alleges the Swedish government was in cahoots with the CIA, could rekindle a 2005 parliamentary investigation that concluded U.S. agents broke Swedish laws in 2001 by subjecting two Egyptians--who were secretly flown from Stockholm to Cairo--to "degrading and inhuman treatment" and by exercising police powers on Swedish soil...