Residents welcome their relatives who have just returned from Syria after arriving in Baghdad November 21, 2007. REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud (IRAQ)
Posted on 11/24/2007 4:38:01 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Iraqis who fled their country because of the war are returning by the hundreds of thousands to Iraq from Syria, Egypt and Jordan because of the improved security. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is providing the free bus and flight travel:
Residents welcome their relatives who have just returned from Syria after arriving in Baghdad November 21, 2007. REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud (IRAQ)
The return is dramatic. Baghdad has been transformed:
Iraqi refugees are returning home in dramatic numbers, concluding that security in Baghdad has been transformed. Thousands have left their refuge in Syria in recent months, according to some estimates.
The Iraqi Embassy is organising a secure mass convoy from Damascus to Baghdad on Monday for refugees who want to drive back. Embassy notices went up around the Syrian capital yesterday, offering free bus and train rides home.
Saida Zaynab, the Damascus neighbourhoods once dominated by many of the 1.5 million Iraqi refugees, is almost deserted. Apartment prices are plummeting and once-crowded shops and buses are half empty.
Syria has absorbed the lion’s share of Iraqi refugees since the US-led invasion and subsequent insurgency, with the rest going to Jordan, Egypt and other countries around the region. They, too, report a growing number of returnees.
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Run Paul and the democrats: “NO! THE SURGE IS BAD! WE MUST SURRENDER BEFORE WE WIN!”
The War is Over and We have Won. These people are returning because the word on the street is its over. This is the Biggest News yet. It will only get even better. We Have Won!
Pray for W and Our Victrious Freedom Fighters
Now, if Republican Governor Jindal of Louisianna can clean up his state, we Texans can once again enjoy our own state as the who-dat crowd entusiastically returns to New Orelans.
Very saddened!!! Pelosi will probably ignore the good news as she always does.
Advice for "journalists" in training. No story is ever such good news that a sufficient amount of digging cannot uncover something negative...
That looked like "vicious" at first...
I was OK with that...
Do Nothing Nancy will probably start complaining they don’t have Universal Healthcare? Will she give our troops Victory Parades when they return??
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
WOOOOHOOOO!!! America’s finest, Coalition’s finest, Iraq’s finest...
Music to read this thread by...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzhPrR-ANcA
It looked that way to AQ too!
Pray for W and Our Victorious Freedom Fighters
How does Benedict Murtha and his merry band of moonbats explain this turn of events? Anybody?
right?
right?
where is this on the ‘major’ media outlets...
oh......nver mnd...
Iraqis across America have been celebrating and ‘returning home’ since April of 2003.
As soon as we get all the Iraqi’s back home, I guess Syria, Damascus, Iran, and others better start looking for bomb shelters.
How much of Iraq is considered ‘unpacified’?
by, I mean, absolutely zero police protection,
the bad guys operate openly.
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