US surge sees 600,000 more Iraqis abandon home

[Christa]

By Leonard Doyle in Washington
Published: 25 August 2007

The scale of the human disaster in the Iraq war has become clearer from statistics collected by two humanitarian groups that reveal the number of Iraqis who have fled the fighting has more than doubled since the US military build-up began in February.

The Iraqi Red Crescent Organisation said the total number of internally displaced has jumped from 499,000 to 1.1 million since extra US forces arrived with the aim of making the country more secure. The UN-run International Organisation for Migration says the numbers fleeing fighting in Baghdad grew by a factor of 20 in the same period.

These damning statistics reveal that despite much- trumpeted security improvements in certain areas, the level of murderous violence has not declined. The studies reveal that the number of Iraqis fleeing their homes ­ not intending to return ­ is far higher than before the US surge.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2893884.ece

I am going to be sick

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1. This must be the ACTUAL plan for the 'surge'........

drive out most of the Iraqis from their homes and country, then the U.S. will takeover the entire country and turn it into ANOTHER police state of america. This is a disgrace.