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=> Now WHY would they do that.....?

Now WHY would they do that.....?
Posted by beezelbub (Guest) - Sunday, October 30 2005, 21:53:44 (CET)
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Violence Drives Iraq's Brightest Abroad

By MARIAM FAM, Associated Press Writer
29 minutes ago




BAGHDAD, Iraq - First, gunmen burst into Riyadh Tamimi's home, beat his guard, terrified his wife and three daughters and stole appliances. Later, kidnappers held his brother until the family paid $20,000. When gunfire blew out Tamimi's windows, that was the last straw.
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The 40-year-old businessman packed up his family and fled the southern city of Basra to the United Arab Emirates, joining an exodus of educated and affluent Iraqis driven out by instability and violence at a time their rebuilding homeland desperately needs their skills.

"There are almost no more qualified people in Basra," said Tamimi, who returned to Iraq's second biggest city recently without his family for a short business trip. "Any successful engineer, doctor or businessman is now abroad. All this will have a negative impact on Iraq."

Successful Iraqis want to invest their money "where there is peace and stability," he said.

Government officials say they have no figures on the number of Iraqis who have fled since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. But the former minister of migration, Pascale Warda, said she hears of people leaving almost daily.

Up to 800,000 Iraqis are believed to be living in Jordan — many of them since the conflict began. Thousands more have moved to Syria, the United Arab Emirates and other Arab countries. For the superrich, London or the United States are options.

"This just destroys the country. It has a very negative effect on the situation in Iraq and on the country's ability to improve," said Warda, who served in the interim government of Ayad Allawi, which left office in late April.

..."Assyrians"!!! Go get what you deserve!!!! Those of you who begged Bush to be "saved". And in all of this the AIDS people want to make sure Christians STAY right where they are..."here's a roof...aren't you all set and pleased"???



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