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inThe Green Zone
Iraq VP's staffers detained
Two women employed by the office of Iraq's fugitive vice president Tareq al-Hashemi have been detained by security forces and may be at risk of torture, rights group Amnesty International said. Hashemi, a Sunni, has been accused of running a death squad, a charge he denies. He is holed up in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, which has so far decli…
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inPakistanis
No Relief from Democracy!
On November 21st 2010, the Associated Press reported that Iraq had run out of money to pay for widows' benefits, farm crops and other programs for the poor, leaving those dependent upon welfare support both frustrated and angry. "How can we pay for our daily needs and for our medicine, or to cover the needs of my children?” said one woman who stopp…
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