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Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Those who support the Palestinians, should not forget what the Shi`ite sectarian militias in Iraq--the devotees of an obscurantist Ayatullah--have done to the Palestinians in Iraq: "Nassem was among about 1,000 Palestinian refugees living in Baghdad's Baladiyat neighbourhood on the edge of Sadr City, now a radical Shiite stronghold. He decided to flee when a Shiite "death squad" threatened him last March. "They told me that as I was Sunni Palestinian who supported Saddam Hussein, that I should get out of Baghdad or they would kill me," Nassem recalled, sitting on a worn mattress on the floor. "I asked a man to arrange fake travel papers and crossed into Syria, got to Abu Dhabi and flew to India."" (thanks Kumar)