Iraqi Orphan Starts New Life in America
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An Iraqi orphan credited with helping American troops avoid attacks and find insurgents in Baghdad started a new life Tuesday at Girls and Boys Town, the storied home for troubled youngsters.
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The Bush administration plans to allow about 7,000 Iraqi refugees into the country over the next year, compared with 463 allowed in since the war began.
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HOUSTON - Seven Texas children were discovered abandoned at a Nigerian orphanage, suffering from disease and malnutrition, and have been brought back to the United States.    Child Protective Services, which received emergency custody of the children Monday, is investigating accusations that the children's adoptive mother abandoned them in Nigeria in October and later went to work in Iraq as a private contractor...
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IBADAN, Nigeria - Allegedly abandoned by their American mother in Africa as she took up military contract work in Iraq, seven children from Texas begged small change to buy food and shuttled from a neglectful stranger's care to a concrete-block orphanage, Nigerians said Thursday.    Eventually, the children proved their American citizenship to a passing missionary from Texas by singing the Star-Spangled Banner, and he notified U.S...
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A Madison Avenue executive turned soldier found a mission among the impoverished children of Iraq.
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DASHT TAKH, Iraq  - Farouq Youhana fled car bombs and snipers in Baghdad to start a new life in a village in northern Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan.
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Millions of Iraqi refugees fleeing violence and sectarian cleansing after the U.S.-led invasion four years ago are finding it nearly impossible to get safe harbor in America, including those who risked their lives helping President George W. Bush's war effort.
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The new U.S. ambassador to Iraq has made a career of taking on difficult tasks.
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Some Iraqi refugees living in Syria dismissed on Wednesday a Bush administration plan to allow some 7,000 Iraqi refugees to settle in the U.S., saying they preferred to stay closer to home and planned to return to Iraq.
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An obscure program grants speedy asylum to a small number of Iraqis who face retribution because of their ties to Americans.
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A Virginia-based missionary group said this week that it has airlifted 300 "tsunami orphans" from the Muslim province of Banda Aceh to Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, where it plans to raise them in a Christian children's home.
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Rafed al Janabi, an Iraqi refugee living in Gaithersburg, was so grateful for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein that he quit his restaurant job and joined the U.S. Army. He was sent last year to Iraq, to translate for a Special Forces unit.
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This Chapter of the video discusses what Ambassador Hope would say to President Bush.  Ambassador Hope was orphaned at birth and adopted by a loving family at 6 weeks old.  Prosperity Studios, Inc.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents abducted the local director of CARE International from her car in Baghdad on Tuesday, targeting a charity worker who has championed ordinary Iraqis for decades. In new violence, mortar attacks killed an American contractor and at least four Iraqi National Guard members and wounded 80 Iraqis, the U.S...
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Margaret Hassan was an &quot;extraordinary&quot; woman who &quot;dedicated her life to the poor and disadvantaged in Iraq, particularly to children&quot;, her employer, the aid agency Care International, said last night.
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About 12,000 Iraqi refugees will be admitted into the United States over the next year as measures to speed up the process begin to take effect, government officials said yesterday.
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The Bush administration hopes to resettle about 7,000 Iraqi refugees to the United States this year, the State Department said Wednesday. "We have a responsibility to respond to the immediate needs of Iraqis who have fled violence and persecution," said U.S. Undersecretary Paula Dobriansky. The U.N. high commissioner for refugees estimates up to 2 million Iraqis have fled since the war began.