Dexter Filkins: What We Left Behind In Iraq : The New Yorker

What We Left Behind In Iraq
Iraqi medics evacuate the remains of a suicide bomber following an attack at the university of Imam Kadhim University in the capital Baghdad on April 20, 2014. A police colonel said a suicide attacker entered the university before setting off explosives, while another bomber and a gunman were killed by security forces. The attack killed at least three people and wounded at least nine, officials said. AFP PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)
Iraqi medics evacuate the remains of a suicide bomber following an attack at the university of Imam Kadhim University in the capital Baghdad on April 20, 2014. A police colonel said a suicide attacker entered the university before setting off explosives, while another bomber and a gunman were killed by security forces. The attack killed at least three people and wounded at least nine, officials said. AFP PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)

On Christmas Day last year, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki appeared on Iraqi television to wish his country's Christian minority--which has been fleeing by the thousand since the American invasion, in 2003--a happy holiday.

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