The professional class and the elite are leaving Iraq

[Erika]

saying it has been taken over by goons and extremists.

Read the first article of the news at www.icasualties.org

This is so depressing. Read each of the articles. Bushco says it's all getting better?

[sintax]

1. Consider posting story in LBN

Baghdad elite flees Iraq and the daily threat of death
By Thomas Harding in Baghdad
(Filed: 10/08/2005)

Quietly, in their ones and twos, the professional classes of Baghdad are slipping out of the country to avoid becoming another fatal statistic.

Iraq is losing the educated elite of doctors, lawyers, academics and businessmen who are vital to securing a stable future. There is also fear that their departure will leave a vacuum to be filled by religious extremists.

 

The latest suicide bombing in Baghdad killed at least 3 people

Outside the shelter of the Green Zone, home to the American and Iraqi political leadership, lawlessness has overtaken the capital.

Prof Abdul Sattar Jawad, the head of English literature at Baghdad University, will leave next month to take up a post in Jordan. Two of his colleagues left recently after being intimidated.

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/10/wirq10.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/08/10/ixworld.html

[Erika]

4. I think its a dramactic move

Go ahead and post in LBN.

[Fridays Child]

2. "Under sanctions [imposed on Saddam Hussein by the United Nations...

...after the Gulf war]we had no problems like this."

- Professor Abdul Sattar Jawad, head of English Literature, Baghdad University

[Swamp Rat]

3. Like the United States of America.

I know professors, lawyers, teachers, doctors, students, etc. who are immigrating to Canada and Europe right now. BUT, if we don't stop the GOP Nazis here, the whole world will be in great danger... actually, it already is.

[seabeyond]

5. i was getting that feel a week or two ago, reading iraqi bloggers

the ones i have read regularly have families moving out already.