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The Other side of the surge

By Bill Larson | June 14, 2007 | Print This Post

 

Displaced Iraqis at the Mehran border have so far made no effort to cross into Iran (UNHCR/K.Nemoto)This is the surge the other way; the hemorrhaging of a dying nation. A humanitarian disaster unfolding the UN says; nearly four million Iraqis displaced now by sectarian cleansing, kidnap and carnage; two million have fled altogether, half of them here in Syria; bus load after bus load arriving in Damascus, a hundred thousand more every month.

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