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Iraq's Upper Class Flees

2M Iraqi refugees flood surrounding region

By Zach Samalin, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 20, 2007 4:08 PM CDT

(Newser) – More than 2 million Iraqis have left home, mostly crossing the borders into neighboring Jordan and Syria. And the upper class has been the first to go—robbing the country of the doctors, engineers and government officials necessary to rebuild it. With one of ten... Read full story »

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