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Iraqi Labor Leaders Blame US for the Bloodshed in Iraq and say Get Out!

Don’t tell Faleh Abood Umara or Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein that you want the U.S. quit Iraq, but that you’re worried about a resulting civil war. The two Iraqi labor leaders, currently in Philadelphia as part of a U.S. tour sponsored by a coalition of American labor unions called U.S. ...

IRAQ: Hundreds flee homes as Turkish forces battle Kurdish fighters

SULAIMANIYAH, 21 June 2007 (IRIN) - Hundreds of Iraqi Kurds have been forced to flee their homes after up to 30,000 Turkish soldiers massed on the Iraqi-Turkish border and launched attacks against Kurdish fighters, Iraqi border police say. Local aid agencies said Kurdish fighters had prevented them from entering the ...

Scenes From An Iraki Childhood June 21st 2007.

Children in al-Jamiyah western Baghdad hold a melted American M16 assault rifle(if only every weapon in Irak would be melted - Nur) The rifle was being carried by an American soldier who was riding in a "Hummer." The armoured convoy in which the soldier was riding was bombed this morning. ...

Scenes From An Iraki Childhood June 20 2007

The coffin is for his mother who was killed in a bomb attack. He's waiting for relatives to come back with her body. If you look at the coffin you can see that it's been used before. That's because Muslims don't typically use coffins for burial — although of course ...

Such are the Companions of the Right Hand

~ 90:12 ~ وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الْعَقَبَةُ And what will explain to thee the path that is steep?- ~ 90:13 ~ فَكُّ رَقَبَةٍ (It is:) freeing the bondman; ~ 90:14 ~ أَوْ إِطْعَامٌ فِي يَوْمٍ ذِي مَسْغَبَةٍ Or the giving of food in a day of privation ~90: 15 ~ يَتِيمًا ذَا مَقْرَبَةٍ To the orphan with ...