1,000 A Day

I'm sure St. McCain's plan to send in a few more troops will ease this situation. More than 1,000 Iraqis a day are being displaced by the sec
By John Amato — November 23, 2006

I'm sure St. McCain's plan to send in a few more troops will ease this situation.

More than 1,000 Iraqis a day are being displaced by the sectarian violence that began on Feb. 22 with the bombing of the Shiite Askariya shrine in Samarra, according to a report released this week by the Geneva-based International Organization for Migration, a U.N.-associated group. This increasing movement of Iraqi families, caused by the lack of security and by the growth of armed local militias and criminal gangs, is adding to the already chaotic governmental situation in Baghdad, according to U.N., U.S. and non-governmental reports released over the past weeks...read on

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