1,000 Iraqis a Day Flee Violence, U.N. Group Finds

More than 1,000 Iraqis a day are being displaced by the sectarian violence that began on Feb. 22 with the bombing of the Shiite Askariya shrine in Samarra, according to a report released this week by the Geneva-based International Organization for Migration, a U.N.-associated group.
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Walter Pincus

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1,000 Iraqis a Day Flee Violence, U.N. Group Finds

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