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Archive Home > 2009 > August > 09 > For elderly in Iraq, a new ordeal, a new home

For elderly in Iraq, a new ordeal, a new home

By Ned Parker and Caesar Ahmed / The Bulletin
August 9, 2009

BAGHDAD " They are old men and women who have lived through the monarchy, Saddam Hussein, the U.S.-led invasion and religion-fueled civil warfare.

Now, they putter about in a house on the Tigris River, passing the time on cots with pink sheets, in whitewashed rooms, with the faint smell of....

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