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colecrowe
11-28-2007, 07:09 AM
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"A half-dozen owners of Iraqi travel agencies and drivers who regularly travel to Syria agreed that the numbers misrepresented reality," Cave reports. "They said that the flow of returnees peaked last month, with more than 50 families arriving daily from Syria at Baghdad’s main drop-off point. Since Nov. 1, they said, the numbers have declined, and on Sunday morning, during a period when several buses used to appear, only one came.

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003677388

RobertJ
11-28-2007, 09:42 AM
Isnt the real reason those iraqi`s returned to iraq because syria closed its borders to all iraqi`s? Also syria is refusing to renew the iraqi`s visas who did make it to syria so they are in effect being forced to return to iraq.