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McClatchy Newspapers: Prospects are dismal for returning Iraqi refugees

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Created 05/22/2009 - 00:00

By Corinne Reilly

When Dhafir Hussein left Iraq last year for Sweden, he hoped it would be for good. Sectarian killings and armed gangs had turned his old Baghdad neighborhood, Sheik Omar, into a ghost town. Business had disappeared at the small engine-repair shop where he once made a decent living.

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