World's fastest-growing refugee crisis in Iraq

Relief organizations say almost one third of Iraqis need emergency humanitarian aid

Tuesday July 31st, 2007

The war in Iraq has led to the greatest mass exodus of people ever in the Middle East and threatens to overtake Darfur in the numbers of displaced. A report by Oxfam International and the NGO Coordination Committee of Iraq concludes "the slide into poverty and deprivation since the coalition forces entered the country in 2003 has been dramatic, and a deep trauma for the Iraqi people." One in seven Iraqis have fled for fear of being killed. More than 2 million are now in Syria and Jordan. Another 2 million are believed to be living away from their homes inside Iraq, often in makeshift camps. The report says 70 per cent of Iraqis don't have adequate access to clean water, compared to 50 per cent four years ago. Humanitarian aid has also declined from $453 million in 2005 to less than $100 million last year. British journalist Patrick Cockburn writes in the Belfast Telegraph the United States "has 18 benchmarks to measure progress in Iraq but the return of 4 million people is not among them." APTN cameras recorded the squalid conditions for internal refugees living near Najaf.

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[Matthappy420]

Bush is a mobster. Look at what he does.

Impeach.

[badattitude77769]

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[Tigris363]

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[carlos72813]

@sxcsoori America only tried to stop the ppl who took down the World Trade Center. My dad was in it when it went down.

[1976jasse]

@envyjealous god bless u.

[sxcsoori]

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[FriedChikkin]

THIS! This is what the missionary vultures have been looking forward to... to force en mass people whom believe in Jesus(pbuh) already to believe in him the way the missionaries would have others believe—the way that doesn't make sense unless its enforced via the aftereffects of war upon deceived children. So they grow deceived adults.

[envyjealous]

Third Largest OIL Reserves in the World...

have refugees ??? Where are the Iraqi OIL revenues going ??? Global Corporation Thieves

... the Global Mob (Corporations) "Fear Tactics" is working to intimidate and steal oil rich sovereign countries natural resources

"GREEDY Zionist bastards must die"

-Power to the People

[abram730]

remember 9/11 and the Pentagon!!!

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There was an investigation into the theft of trillions of dollars and it so happened that office was directly hit in the pentagon... So fuck you and your 911 trader.

I guess you would consider it wrong/illegal to disembowel you guys publicly huh?