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"Day after day Iraqi refugees in neighboring countries are getting more frustrated by the harsh conditions in which they live. Sooner or later they are going to have a negative impact on the stability of the whole region," said member of parliament Abdul-Khaliq Zankana. He predicted the Iraqi refugee problem could take 8-10 years to resol

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    bubba22 months ago

    Over four million Iraqis are living in difficult conditions as IDPs (2.4 million) or refugees in foreign countries (2.2 million).

    Over the past year the number of refugees worldwide rose by 2.5 million to stand at 11.4 million, with Iraq and Afghanistan contributing most to these figures, according a 17 June 2008 report by the UN Refugee Agency.

    "In Iraq, with the sectarian divide and the lack of a comprehensive political solution, the number of internally displaced rose from 1.8 million at the start of the year to close to 2.4 million by the end of 2007," the report said.

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      chuck-the-canuck2 months ago

      Give those experts a cigar.

      I've got a fifteen year old son who already figured that out. The invasion of Iraq has created a terrorist factory. The US seemed to think the region was stable enough way back when it was negotiating with Sadam while he was gassing the Kurds.

      The Muslims extremists were of no real threat to anyone but themselves. Sure there was 9/11, but that was a unlucky aberration. They have no navy, not much of an air force, they were no real threat.

      Now the US has stirred up a hornets nest that will take generations to settle down, if it ever does. They are training their children to hate the west.

      You've got "the decider" and the "uniter" to thank for that.

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        lastofiraqis2 months ago

        great comment Chuck...US government used what happened in 9/11 to make the US citizens and the whole west scared of the idea that such things will happen again and in this way they will have the support, sometimes I like to think that what happened in 9/11 was known by the US government and they didn't do anything to stop it just to have the support of their people for the war...or even they might have a hand in it!!! and sometimes I think that Bin Ladin is an agent for the US government just like Saddam...they were doing what US government wanted them to do (even if it looked bad for the US) to carry on their plan.

        I'm not saying that this must be the truth, but I'm just thinking that it might be.

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          libsRfunny1 month, 4 weeks ago

          "I like to think that what happened in 9/11 was known by the US government and they didn't do anything to stop it just to have the support of their people for the war...or even they might have a hand in it!!! and sometimes I think that Bin Ladin is an agent for the US government just like Saddam...they were doing what US government wanted them to do (even if it looked bad for the US) to carry on their plan."

          Yep. You are a complete lunatic and a fraud. How much money did you sucker people into wiring you in England?

          Funny people are dumb enough to believe that crap you post. I read through many of your fake posts on the fake blog. I noticed "Sadr City" consistently is spelled one way in severa consecutivbe posts and then another entirely in other consecutive posts as well as references to events that couldn't possibly have happend in Baghdad - Turkish troops hooting Iraqis - and refences to TV shows not shown in Iraq.

          Fraud.

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        billcorno1 month, 4 weeks ago

        What a travesty this war has been. And if it was done for oil, it didn't exactly work, you could say.

        These displaced Iraqis will hate us for a long time to come if we don't do something to help them. Millions of Iraqi refugees. This should be a priority, a responsibility of our government, as we brought this upon them!

        The Bush government, and thus we, the American people, must do something to make this tragedy right. This is a humanitarian crisis! This is our doing!

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        I'm OUTTA here! The new format S-U-C-K-S! (I'll check back occasionally just in case Propeller regains their sanity and restores the previous format ...

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