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Posted by Jeff (Guest) jeff@attoz.com - Friday, January 23 2004, 2:03:12 (EST)
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Tiglath,
She took the job at Habaniyah ... isn't that where our people blundered when they worked for the British???

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Tiglath wrote:
>Iraqis working for Americans live in fear for their lives
>Sabah Jerges, Associated Press
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>Published January 23, 2004 FEAR23
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>BAGHDAD -- Askhik Varojan worried about her job in the laundry of a U.S. military base after insurgents began targeting Iraqis who were cooperating with the occupation forces.
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>She boarded a minibus Wednesday for her job at the post in Habaniyah, 50 miles west of Baghdad, determined to hand in her resignation rather than live in fear. On the way, Varojan and three other women died when masked gunmen raked their vehicle with automatic weapons fire. Five women and the male driver were wounded.
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>"She went yesterday to tell them that she wouldn't go to work anymore and to claim her salary," Varojan's sister, Eida Varojan, said.
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>The four dead women, Armenian or Assyrian Christians, are the latest Iraqi civilians to fall victim to guerrillas who attack occupation forces and civilians perceived as supporting them.
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>Last Sunday, 31 people were killed when a suicide bomber blew up his truck at a gate to coalition headquarters used by Iraqis who work for the coalition or who apply for jobs.
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>Varojan took the job at Habaniyah three weeks ago to support her paralyzed husband and four children, relatives said. On Thursday, her coffin was brought to their dingy one-room apartment, where relatives gathered to mourn. Her 20-year-old daughter, Anjel, fainted from grief.
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>"Come and see our home in order to know why we work [with the Americans]," said another daughter, Emma Hagoub, 25. "My father had a stroke and can't work. We live six people in one room."
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>Relatives of the dead said they realized they were at risk by working for the Americans.
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>"But it is a question of money," said Seita Noubar, 48, whose sister Sona was among the dead. "What can we do? She just wanted to earn a living."



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