Many Christians Flee Iraq, With Syria the Haven of Choice

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By KATHERINE ZOEPF
Published: August 5, 2004 The New York Times
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"Two months ago, Mr. Nuaman says, he was both a member of Iraq's small Mandaean sect, and a patriot with high hopes for the country's democratic future. Then Islamist extremists began attacking Christians in his Baghdad neighborhood, and his 9-year-old son was kidnapped, dragged into a moving car as he played near the family home.
After relatives scraped together $5,000 to ransom the boy, the family decided enough was enough and left, driving across the desert into Syria to apply for refugee status.

"We are safe here, and so we feel free," Mr. Nuaman said of his new home in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana. "The Syrians are brothers to us. There is no discrimination here. That is the truth, and not a compliment." (snip)
According to the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, Christians are now fleeing the country in record numbers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/05/international/middleeast/05syria.html

Christians are fleeing to Syria to find peace and freedom. Another sign of Bush's "success" in Iraq.

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1. one of the reasons

they go to Syria is because it isn`t a Islamic state,it`s run by the ba`th party and it is a republic-this is the country bush wants to invade in 2005