AP: Over 1 million Iraqis have fled their homes since 2003

[sabra]

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/15723698.htm

More than 300,000 Iraqis have fled
Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq - More than 300,000 Iraqis have fled their homes to other parts of the country to escape violence since the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein, with the rate swelling in the past six months of Shiite-Sunni killings, the immigration minister said Tuesday.

In addition, some 890,000 Iraqis have moved to Jordan, Iran and Syria since Saddam's fall, Immigration Minister Abdul-Samad Sultan told reporters.

The flight is solidifying the sectarian divide in this country of around 30 million people. He said those who moved within Iraq went to areas where their own community dominates - Shiites leaving Sunni-majority or mixed areas for Shiite ones and vice versa.

"We had hoped that the situation would help us after Saddam's fall. But unfortunately, the plans of the Saddamists and the terrorists have shaken the new Iraq," Sultan said. "This is the goal of the terrorists, to create (separate) Shiite and Sunni pockets and change the demographics of Iraq."

[rfranklin]

1. Thank you, Meester Boosh!

Thank you for saving us from that bad man Saddam. Now we live in terror. Now we have no electric. Now we have no water. Now we have no school. Now we have no job. Thank you for our freedom from those things, Meester Boosh!

[elfin]

2. i wonder if Riverbend (Baghdad Burning is among them - eom

[BootinUp]

3. Take one giant step backwards...

for Bush's freedom march.

[magellan]

4. Between the dead and displaced

...Bush** has managed to 'liberate' 5% of Iraq's population. That's the same as 15 million Americans being forced to leave their homes or die.

Bush** can't even deal with the hundreds of thousands displaced by Katrina.