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 | BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. Embassy on Thursday launched an expanded immigration program that provides 5,000 more visas each year for Iraqis who have put themselves at risk by working for the U.S. government. The new guidelines represent a 10-fold increase in the number of visas and extend the applicable categories beyond an existing program for interpreters to include all Iraqis who have [...] since Riverbend last posted; the post was long and hopeful, about she and her family’s arrived in Syria as refugees from Iraq. But since then, only silence. From the Washington Post last week: Damascus is the epicenter of the Middle East’s gravest humanitarian disaster since the Palestinian refugee crisis of 1948. …Unlike its neighbors, who have imposed strict visa requirements, Syria has done [...] By Caroline Glick Jerusalem Post | Tuesday, November 20, 2007 According to foreign reports, Israel destroyed a nuclear weapons installation in Syria in September. Never has a larger story been pushed under the rug by so many so quickly. What are we to make of this? Over the weekend former federal prosecutor and the head of the non-governmental International Intelligence Summit, John Loftus, released [...] Did you know we were bombing Syria? From the Jerusalem Post (via Jill at Brilliant at Breakfast) we learn that U.S. Air Force jets – bearing among their armaments tactical nukes – bombed that alleged nuclear development site in Syria two months ago. Not Israeli jets. U.S. fighter jets: The September 6 raid over Syria was carried out by the US Air Force, the [...]
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