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Jeff Jacoby: What has Gone Right in Iraq

Jeff Jacoby: What has gone right in Iraq [1]:

“With all the news coming out of the Middle East, here is a detail you might have missed: A few weeks ago, the United Nations shut down the Ashrafi refugee camp in southwestern Iran. For years Ashrafi had been the largest facility in the world housing displaced Iraqis, tens of thousands of whom had been driven from their homes by Saddam Hussein’s brutality. But with Saddam behind bars and his Baathist dictatorship crushed, Iraqi exiles have been flocking home. By mid-February the camp had literally emptied out. Now, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees reports, ‘nothing remains of Ashrafi but rubble and a few stones.’
Refugees surging to Iraq?”