Struggling in the U.S., some Iraqi refugees now want to go back
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With few good job prospects in depressed Lansing, Mich., many yearn for their old life in Baghdad.
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They are returning home with a sense of accomplishment, but also with feelings of anger and frustration, even despair.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - Iraqis reacted with anger,  frustration and resentment Friday after many returned to  Falluja to discover their homes in rubble and their livelihoods  ruined following last month's U.S. offensive.
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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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FALLUJA, Iraq  - Iraqis who fled last month's  U.S.-led offensive on Falluja began trickling back on Thursday  to check if homes they left behind were still standing -- but  others turned back as fighting raged in one part of town.
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Iraqis who fled last month's U.S.-led offensive on Falluja began trickling back on Thursday to check if homes they left behind were still standing -- but others turned back as fighting continued to rage.
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The number of Iraqis fleeing their homeland has declined in recent months, primarily because neighboring countries refuse to let them enter, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday.
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Jordan introduces new regulations making it more difficult for Iraqi refugees to enter its territory.
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Nearly 530 Iraqi refugees were admitted to the United States last month, a huge bump from July but still far short of the number needed to fulfill the Bush administration's pledge to accept 2,000 by the end of September.
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For anyone living in Damascus these days, the fact that some Iraqi refugees are selling sex or working in sex clubs is difficult to ignore.
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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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In a tiny village at the northern tip of Iraqi Kurdistan, some Christian refugees who fled Baghdadâs violence are experiencing a kind of homecoming.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - There was anger, frustration and  resentment among Iraqis who returned to Falluja on Friday as  many discovered their homes in rubble and their livelihoods  ruined following a U.S. offensive.
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A look at the difficulties some Iraqis can face in trying to escpape their violent homeland.
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Some 2 million Iraqis have fled to neighboring countries in the past three years and up to 3,000 more go abroad every day, according to the U.N. refugee agency. But Umm Ali and her husband, Hussein Jawad, are among nearly 85,000 Iraqi Arabs who have sought refuge in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq.
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The United States took in 375 Iraqi refugees last month, the State Department said on Monday, a small gain over previous months but still below the pace needed to reach its own target of 12,000 for the year.
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Many Iraqis who fled Baghdad are beginning to return, unaware of what awaits them in a city altered in the sectarian warfare.