(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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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.
Read more at Bloomberg Exclusive News
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