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Christians Flee Genocide as Fear Sweeps Iraq


Telegraph-UK) Jack Fairweather - Iraq's Christian community, targeted with special ferocity by Islamic extremists for the past year, is disappearing rapidly. Churches have been bombed, priests kidnapped, and Christian neighborhoods subjected to random shootings, the terrorists' revenge for the community's shared religion with the "Christian" invaders. According to church leaders, some 300,000 Christians - roughly a quarter of the population - have fled their homes since the U.S.-led invasion. "It's genocide. You can see it with your own eyes," said Bishop Putres Harbori, head of the Christian community in Dohuk, near the Turkish border, where 350 families have found sanctuary. (
2005-01-11 00:00:00
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