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2006-09-28 Iraq
Quarter million Iraqis flee sectarian violence
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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2006-09-28 10:29|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 "registered as refugees in the past seven months, data released on Thursday showed"
"40,000 families -- 240,000 people -- claiming assistance, up from 27,000 families in July"
I'm not sure what these statistics mean. Was it 27,000 registered in the seven months ending late July, and another 13,000 in the two months since then? Are the families that registered in the past ever taken out of the count, or are they assumed to be refugees forever?

"40,000 families -- 240,000 people"
That's six people per family. In 2005, the total fertility rate was 4.3 children per Iraqi woman (http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/idbsum.pl?cty=IZ). It seems unlikely that the average refugee family is an intact family of two parents that has reached "total" fertility. I think Reuters is playing fast and loose with the numbers again.
Posted by Darrell 2006-09-28 12:24||   2006-09-28 12:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Perhaps "family" means extended family.
Posted by Perfesser 2006-09-28 14:48||   2006-09-28 14:48|| Front Page Top

#3 good catch Darrell.
Posted by anon 2006-09-28 14:53||   2006-09-28 14:53|| Front Page Top

#4 I know Iraqi Kurds who have abandoned their Baghdad homes this year and moved to Kurdistan. Didn’t register with anyone. Surprisingly many Sunnis are fleeing to, of all places, Fallujah.
Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2006-09-28 15:11||   2006-09-28 15:11|| Front Page Top

#5 I get pretty hinky when someone plays fast and loose with my fertility. I define "hinky" after I see who it is. Could be bad. Could be good. Heh.
Posted by .com 2006-09-28 15:56||   2006-09-28 15:56|| Front Page Top

#6 U.S. forces predicted a surge in violence with Ramadan and have proven right

As always, the usual Muslim glee in slaughtering each other regardless of time or Holy season. We must take a page from this and NEVER show an ounce of respect for their celebration of Ramadan ever again.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-09-28 16:33||   2006-09-28 16:33|| Front Page Top

#7 I remembers well when someone played fast and loose with my fertility, it was January in a year hard to forget. Hummmmm.... '74? Was it?
Posted by 6 2006-09-28 17:44||   2006-09-28 17:44|| Front Page Top

#8 i'va been abused by the 'weaker' sex also 6r..
used up and then just throwd away..

*sigh*
Posted by RD 2006-09-28 19:22||   2006-09-28 19:22|| Front Page Top

#9 Uh, oh, are we getting close to a *big hug* moment?

Lol, I'm outta here!
Posted by .com 2006-09-28 19:29||   2006-09-28 19:29|| Front Page Top

#10 Ramadan is a favored time for war and raids on infidels. allah gives special favors for those martyred in a holy month. It is beyond my comprehension why the west thinks ramadan deseves special protection. Instead, it should be the favored time to kill them like the murderous bastards they are.
Posted by ed 2006-09-28 19:38||   2006-09-28 19:38|| Front Page Top

#11 Ramadan is the "religiously" and sociably acceptable period of estrus for the murdering kurs. I'm anticipating a welcomed spike in red-wire & blue-wire syndrone.
Posted by Besoeker 2006-09-28 19:49||   2006-09-28 19:49|| Front Page Top

#12 shoot. usually you have to pay extra to get abused....
Posted by Frank G 2006-09-28 20:08||   2006-09-28 20:08|| Front Page Top

#13 Uh, oh, are we getting close to a *big hug* moment?

Ah lubs ya bruddah! Hic!
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-09-28 22:37||   2006-09-28 22:37|| Front Page Top

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