I don't know how bogus conflict-res class is going to solve this problem.
Yeah, things are much better since Saddam is gone!
Father defends Bush on Iraq war
Little DEFENSIVE about your FAILED SON, aren't you, George?
"Teacher is shot on way to school in Baghdad; Attacks rising on educators" by Dougess Smith, Los Angeles Times November 8, 2007
BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed a schoolteacher yesterday on her way to class in a well-to-do Baghdad neighborhood, the third attack on Iraqi educators this week.
Police said Hana Lafta Mohsen, 35, a mathematics teacher at the Mansour neighborhood's Intifada Intermediate School, was shot in the head by unknown assailants. She died at a local hospital. On Sunday, gunmen stormed into a primary school in the Sadiya neighborhood of Baghdad and killed headmistress Bushra Abdul Hurr in front of her students.
In the northern city of Kirkuk, armed men abducted a school principal on Monday. The men stopped a car transporting several teachers, and released all but the principal, Imad Mohammed, said one of the teachers, who asked not to be named.
A Baghdad police official said he was not aware of a connection between the two shootings in the capital, but said the resumption of school after the 3-month-long Iraqi summer break could have been a factor.
Iraqi schools have been plagued by violence before. Schools shut down in parts of Baghdad in 2006 at the height of the country's sectarian violence, with some teachers targeted by extremist groups. University professors have been regularly targeted by militants and criminal gangs since the US-led invasion in 2003.
Meanwhile, an Iraqi Army spokesman in Baghdad said that improving security conditions had prompted the return of more than 46,000 Iraqis to their homeland during October. They were among more than 2 million Iraqis who have taken refuge primarily in neighboring Jordan and Syria.
They are being booted out; that's why they are returning!
Qassim Ata, spokesman for the Iraqi element of the US surge, also cited the start of the school year as a possible reason for the returns; however, both Syria and Jordan have tightened immigration restrictions, forcing Iraqis to leave when their three-month visas expire unless they qualify for refugee status.
Meanwhile, six unidentified homicide victims were found in the capital yesterday, and a sniper killed Muhannand Mizhir Sheikhly, the son of a leading member of the Iraqi Islamic Party, a key Sunni political group."
Sniper? Whose sniper?
New York Times coverage:
"On Wednesday, two children were killed when a roadside bomb exploded on a farm road in Wasit Province. South of Baquba, Iraqi army patrols found 17 bodies, blindfolded, handcuffed and decayed. Four were found headless about 200 yards away. It was the second mass grave discovered in a rural area this week."
That's it!
