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  • August 2007
    • Iraq's Upper Class Flees

      Iraq's Upper Class Flees

      (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 Iraqis living abroad, the war has become one of the largest refugee crises since the Arab-Israeli War of 1948, Der Spiegel reports. More »

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      Iraq   inflation   Syria   unemployment   refugee   Jordan   Iraqi refugees   asylum   overcrowding

  • July 2007

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