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Today was yet another sad day with sad news from Iraq. Professor Ghada, my teacher in the University of Baghdad, emailed me an updated list of the assassinated Iraqi educators. A long bloody list full of University professors and school teachers names, all of them were assasinated after the fall of Baghdad three years ago.
Raed
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Omar Salem Khattab, a urology surgeon, was taken by the US-trained Iraqi police and National Guard when he was trying to help people in a bomb blast. He was taken away for detention. I went to ask about him. The doctor had been abused and hit. He was released. He left Iraq...
Uruk
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"One young Iraqi man told us that he was trained by the Americans as a policeman in Baghdad and he spent 70 per cent of his time learning to drive and 30 per cent in weapons training. They said to him: 'Come back in a week.' When he went back, they gave him a mobile phone and told him to drive into a crowded area near a mosque and phone them. He waited in the car but couldn't get the right mobile signal. So he got out of the car to where he received a better signal. Then his car blew up."
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