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Thousands return to safer Iraqi capital
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some good news never hurts.
BAGHDAD - In a dramatic turnaround, more than 3,000 Iraqi families driven out of their Baghdad neighborhoods have returned to their homes in the past three months as sectarian violence has dropped, the government said Saturday.
Saad al-Azawi, his wife and four children are among them. They fled to Syria six months ago, leaving behind what had become one of the capital's more dangerous districts — west Baghdad's largely Sunni Khadra region.
The family had been living inside a vicious and bloody turf battle between al-Qaida in Iraq and Mahdi Army militiamen. But Azawi said things began changing, becoming more peaceful, in August when radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Mahdi Army fighters to stand down nationwide.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071104/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
BAGHDAD - In a dramatic turnaround, more than 3,000 Iraqi families driven out of their Baghdad neighborhoods have returned to their homes in the past three months as sectarian violence has dropped, the government said Saturday.
Saad al-Azawi, his wife and four children are among them. They fled to Syria six months ago, leaving behind what had become one of the capital's more dangerous districts — west Baghdad's largely Sunni Khadra region.
The family had been living inside a vicious and bloody turf battle between al-Qaida in Iraq and Mahdi Army militiamen. But Azawi said things began changing, becoming more peaceful, in August when radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Mahdi Army fighters to stand down nationwide.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071104/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
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thanks, mr sunshine
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
Dude, you're puttin' lipstick on a pig. Its not a success, its an indictment on 5 years of American mismanagement and hypocrisy.
A resounding success on a sub-microscopic level....a sub-atomic level perhaps And hey that's good enough for...something.....right?
Look on the bright side, at least that real bad mean guy Saddam was hunted down and murdered. Money well spent right?
Murder is ok when the west does it. It's eastern Muslim murder that's the bad kind.
Just like that guru Ann Coulter says.....Islam bad Christian good.
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg
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true
Ann is that you?
Yeah right...crazies on both sides.
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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why does that sound so familiar?
That's good news...
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So.... when do OUR guys get to 'Come Home'?
Hail, Hail!!!
Oh can't happen yet with the half a billion $$$ US Embassy and 3 or 4 permanent US Military bases being built.
Peace
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It what's for breakfast!
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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..not.
4 million - 3,000 ='s where's the dramatic progress.
....According to the United Nations, 4 million Iraqis (50,000 people a month) have fled their homes since the war began, with 2 million going to neighboring countries and 2 million displaced within Iraq. Half of them are children. Current estimates of the number of Iraqi refugees in Jordan vary widely, but the U.N. places it at 750,000. Salah Mehdi Samarai, the president of the nonprofit Royal Organization for Iraqi Immigrants in Amman, disagrees. Samarai, along with other human rights agencies, says the number of Iraqis in Jordan is more than a million, and he says they are living desperately among the Jordanian population.
"I call it blindness. Can't they see? Can't they hear?" he said. "There are a million [Iraqis] in Jordan. Who helps them?"
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/blog/2007/09/jordans_iraqi_r.html