Friday, June 8, 2007

Iraq Scholars Targeted for Murder Find Refuge With Aid From Wall Street

(Bloomberg) -- Professor Abdul Sattar Jawad fled
Baghdad the day after he saw a carload of men with machine guns
pointed at his house. He didn't want to become one of the 250
Iraqi scholars killed since 2003.

``Academics are targeted because they don't share values
with the mob, with extremists,'' said Jawad, who's 63 and
currently teaches Arabic literature at Duke University in
Durham, North Carolina.


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