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...Iraqis call them, which contain the refugees' real photos but use other people's names. "Daniel," 23, a Christian Iraqi student sitting in a Stockholm café, said he bought a fake Iraqi passport for $300 in Baghdad and used it to take a smuggler's ride through Syria to Turkey. In Turkey a smuggler traded Daniel's Iraqi passport for a false European passport for $8,000--paid by his parents in Baghdad. Then he hid in the back of a cargo truck with three other Iraqi men for the duration of the 3,000-mile journey into Sweden...
...people from their homes. As many as 2 million have fled the country, in what Refugees International calls the fastest-growing crisis in the world. As detailed in the stories that follow, the burden of coping with this exodus has fallen most heavily on Iraq's neighbors, such as Syria, Jordan and Iran, who have absorbed the vast majority of exiles. But the war's reverberations are being felt beyond the Middle East, in places as seemingly distant and incongruous as Sweden, which has taken in more than 11,000 Iraqis since...
...interests. It would be good propaganda in the Arab world, where the U.S. image needs burnishing. It would be a tool to counter one of the root causes of terrorism: regional instability caused by mass migration. And it would provide Washington with a basis for talks with Iran and Syria, whose help the U.S. needs to stabilize Iraq. Despite the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, the Bush Administration has refused to negotiate directly with either country. But Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has taken a first step toward engagement, announcing that the U.S. will participate next month in talks...
...Hamas leaders think Fatah officials are too close to the Americans and Israelis. They openly voice suspicions that Mohammed Dahlan, the head of Preventative Security, is working with the U.S. and Israel to topple the Hamas government. Meanwhile, Fatah charges Hamas with taking money and direction from Iran and Syria (where Hamas leader-in-exile Khaled Mashal is based). The distrust is endemic. Neither Fatah nor Hamas trusts Israel. Israel trusts neither. On top of that, the Egyptians are reportedly peeved because the Saudis brokered the deal and took the glory for themselves. Discord exists within the Palestinian factions themselves...
...have an interest in establishing good relations on the basis of mutual respect; i.e., Syria has to get used to the idea that Lebanon is an independent and sovereign country. We don't want to be a battlefield. We have had enough. Lebanese don't want to go back to where the affairs of the country are being ruled by an officer in the army, or by other countries. Lebanon cannot afford to be allying itself with one group of countries against other groups. We want to be good with everybody. We don't have any enemies, except Israel...