Terrorists dress as women to escape capture
Recent incidents in which gunmen – some affiliated with al-Qaeda-- disguised themselves as women in order to avoid capture by security forces are an abuse of Iraqi society's respect for women, Iraqi officials and women's organisations say. Iraqi police captured three wanted men disguised as women on February 12th as they tried to pass throug…
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Killing is the talk of US Iraqis'
This day's English lessons for Iraqi immigrants at Cuyamaca College involved learning how to talk about bad news. From their text, "Day by Day: English for Employment Communication," the 25 students repeated dialogue wrapped around common occurrences: "I lost my wallet" and "My husband got fired from his job." But the stud…
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Christmas for Iraq's Qaeda-hit Christians
Faced with renewed threats by Al-Qaeda and still mourning a church massacre, Christmas for Iraq's Christian community will this year be a time of fear and cancelled celebrations rather than rejoicing. The Council of Churches in Iraq has asked the faithful to limit Christmas celebrations "to a spiritual feast of participating in mass, for reasons of…
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