IRAQ: Refugees forced home as funds dry up

Source: Source: IRIN



IRAQ: Refugees forced home as funds dry up
12 Nov 2007 14:14:48 GMT
Source: IRIN

More BAGHDAD, 12 November 2007 (IRIN) - Broke and desperate, Ziad Qahtan Naeem and his family have returned to their house in war-battered Baghdad, a move they likened to a "death sentence".

The six-member Shia family fled the Sunni-dominated Mansour neighbourhood of western Baghdad nearly two years ago and took refuge in Syria, joining more than one million Iraqis there.

But they have become part of a growing wave of Iraqis leaving Syria - not because they are confident of Iraq's future but because they have run out of money.

Others are returning because the Syrian authorities have made it more difficult for them to stay as most Iraqis cannot work legally in Syria and have been surviving on savings or handouts from relatives.

"Being in Baghdad again means approaching your death sentence," said Naeem, who supported his three sons, wife and mother in Syria after selling his tiny supermarket, his wife's gold and other belongings.

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Not one media source in America will pay any attention to this report, nor will they cover the IRIN report on Basra now having to turn away the 40 immigrants per day which arrive there needing aid.

There's no interest for the actual human impact of this war in the US media, all they care about is putting lipstick on the pig so it is fit to go in public.

This evil administration is already touting the return of Iraqis as a success to the surge.
The surge is certainly no success unless you are an insurgent or Al Qaeda.
It is disgraceful that this administration started using misinformation to fool the American people.:sarcasm:

Silly me. They have been doing this for 7 years.