Iraqis Top UN List Of Asylum Seekers Again

GENEVA, Switzerland, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- The U.N. refugee agency said that despite a decline in the number of asylum-seekers from Iraq, the country continues to top the list.

The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said in its most recent report that the number of asylum-seekers from Iraq dropped 18 points to 10 percent compared with 2007. Those numbers, however, still made up more than 12 percent of all asylum applications to industrialized nations, the report said.

UNHCR said 20 percent of Iraqis had filed for asylum in Sweden in 2007, with Germany, Turkey and the Netherlands close behind. Sweden, however, has shifted its position on asylum applications, resulting in more Iraqis turning to Germany, where application levels increased fourfold from 2007 levels

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Comments

[Hopeington]

Idon't know, it's all about Palin this and Palin that and Joe the Plumber and Palin and....
I keep coming back to this story.
My heart goes out to these people way more than Joe or Sam or whatever his name is. and I realize how distracted we've become by her toxic presence.
I for one will be glad, in a weird way, to return to these more pressing issues but judging by the lack of comments everybody's gonna be busy with other things for a few weeks.
I really think we will refocus soon and truly appreciate you're reporting of this story.
Stories like this enable us to make informed decisions, and help people become aware of the more far reaching effects our involvement has, not only on our troops, but on the innocent citizens of Iraq.
These Iraqi people, while still alive, have lost their life.
I for one will be proud to take steps towards the change, so many of us are looking forward to, when we elect our new president.

[gakabani]

This is the legacy of the Bush administration. If they were Americans we will be screaming bloody murder! But not they are Iraqis and they are treated as numbers, animals for the slaughter house.

We are an insensitive and hypocritical nation, we complain for abortions and we kill those that are already alive for OIL. We have no values but that of money.

Sooner or later we will be treated as they are being treated.

[Hopeington]

So many Iraqis have had to leave their country because of U.S. intervention? Distressing
And displaced to European countries? Alarming
That Sarah Palin is more important to blog about than this? Telling
I wish the media would focus more on the plight of Iraqs citizens. Appalling
And when then run the ticker tape at the bottom of the screen, that list U.S. deaths in Iraq, they should also list the number of Iraqis killed in this lenghty occupation. Awakening.

[JAB20]

Probably especially Iraqi Christians.