Abandoned and terrified, (Palestinian) refugees are targets of the (Shia) death squad

[sabra]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2515394,00.html

Abandoned and terrified, refugees are targets of the death squad

Palestinians who fled to Iraq after the wars with Israel in 1948 and 1967 are victimised by Shia militias because they were favoured under the regime of Saddam Hussein


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Shia militias, most prominently al- Mahdi Army, are targeting Palestinian refugees in Iraq and the Iraqi Government has failed to stop them, a UN official told The Times on condition of anonymity.

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The mood is so bleak that the UN High Commissioner for Refugees declared last week after meeting Iraqi officials that there was “little room for optimism”.

Another international relief official told The Times that local police were collaborating with al-Mahdi Army in attacks on Palestinians.

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But without passports, the refugees, who arrived in Iraq after the 1948 and 1967 wars with Israel, are stranded. Arab countries and the rest of the world are loath to take them. Currently, more than 266 Palestinians are camped out in the desert between Iraq and Syria.

“I wish we could go to another country. Even Darfur is more merciful than being here. There is famine and killing but it’s more compassionate than the Arab countries,” 40-year-old Thamer Asad Melham said. He lives in the Baladiyat housing complex, the biggest Palestinian community in Baghdad, with more than 7,000 residents.

[Dhalgren]

1. So, does this mean that the Iraqi Shiites and the Israelis are now

allies? Man, who woulda thought....

[Trajan]

2. Hell .... I can practically fit 266 into my House ....

Not really, but this is a MINISCULE number ...

SURELY their is 'room at the inn' in some christian nation for these poor people ....

Where is the spirit of Christ when you need it ?