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Egypt: Iraqis Flee To Safety Of Home

by | 1st, February 2011

EGYPT is now more dangerous than Iraq:

In a geopolitical shift, even Iraq decided it would evacuate its citizens, sending three planes to Egypt – including the prime minister’s plane – to bring home for free those who wish to return. Thousands of Iraqis had once fled to Egypt to escape the violence in their own country.

Andrew Bolt hears that around 800 people took up the offer to head back to the comparative safety of Iraq…

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A poster with pictures of dead activists Khalid Said and Elsaid Bilal is held up by a protester outside the Egyptian Embassy in Dublin, in a show of solidarity with thousands of anti-government activists in Cairo and other cities.



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