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December 27, 2006       Share:    

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml

"Leave, Crusaders, or Have Your Heads Cut Off"

[Sunday Telegraph-UK] Aqeel Hussein and Colin Freeman - The Christians of the Iraqi city of Mosul are scared to put festive decorations outside their homes this year. Their ancestors settled here in the 1st century AD, yet as teacher Jamal Fadi has discovered, some of their Muslim neighbors want this Christmas to be their last. "A letter was delivered to my door with two bullets placed on top of it," said Fadi, 32. "It said: 'Leave, crusaders, or we will cut your heads off.'" Iraq's Christian minority fears that al-Qaeda-backed zealots want to end 1,500 years of coexistence with an onslaught of ethnic cleansing.

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