Many Iraqis See Lebanon as Mirror Image

With Isam Rashid BAGHDAD - Iraqis are beginning to see striking similarities between Lebanese civilians and themselves three years ago. Talk on the streets of Baghdad is taking a tone of oneness with the Lebanese. Anger over the bombing of Lebanon that Iraqis say they...

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Iraqis Struggle to Leave, Somehow

With Omar Abdullah BAGHDAD - More than three years after the invasion, Iraqis seem increasingly to want to leave the country. Reports come pouring in about Iraqi refugees overwhelming Syria, Jordan, and other nations in the region. Last month, the United Nations...

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Saddam’s Execution Likely, Fair Trial Less So

With Omar Abdullah BAGHDAD - The trial of Iraq's former president Saddam Hussein has been wracked with controversy and spectacle. Now entering its final phase, the question for all Iraqis and the world is whether he will be executed for the deaths of 148 Shi'ites,...

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Kurds Stuck in No-Man’s Land

RUWEISHID REFUGEE CAMP - A small stretch of desert, sandwiched between the borders of Jordan and Iraq, is a "no-man's land," created by the Iraqi government's decision to cede part of its western frontier to Jordan. It has become a place where refugees from...

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Baghdad Morgue Tells Story Statistics Can’t

With Isam Rashid BAGHDAD - Baghdad's central morgue received more than a thousand bodies each month this year, a doctor has revealed. The body count here gives a more accurate picture of the story in Baghdad than any official statistics. Before the war, this morgue,...

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Ramadi Becomes Another Fallujah

AMMAN - These days, Ramadi is nearly impossible to enter. Against the backdrop of the Haditha massacre, IPS has received reports of civilians killed by snipers, and homes occupied with American snipers on the roof while families were detained downstairs. One man, who...

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Violence Driving Iraqis From Homes, Country

With Isam Rashid BAGHDAD - Tens of thousands have fled their homes or the country since the bombing of the Shia shrine in Samarra Feb. 23. At least 30,000 Iraqis have been displaced from their homes since then, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says....

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Withdrawal May Not Mean Liberation

*with Isam Rashid BAGHDAD - Talk of withdrawal has been dogging the administrations of the United States and Britain for months. Recently the Sunday Telegraph in Australia and the Daily Mirror in Britain ran reports quoting a senior British official that the two...

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