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IRAQ: Poverty drives children to work for armed groups »

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Seif Abdul-Rafiz, 11, and his 2 brothers were left with no choice but to leave school and work to help their unemployed parents make ends meet. Unable to find a job, Seif resorted to making bombs for Sunni insurgents. "The bombs are used to fight American soldiers ... My parents told me that it helps our family eat and it is to fight occupatio

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35Young and Invincible? They make too much to get free health care, but they can't afford to buy it.

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tehranchik
May 10, 2007, 11:25 a.m.
The choices are--stay in the group of people being killed or join the ones doing the killing in hopes of survival.
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Radiofreeeuropa
May 10, 2007, 2:37 p.m.
A war of choice.
An occupation without end.
Why does anyone believe this cuts down on terrorism?
It gives reasonable people little or no choice.
It legitimizes hatred instead of diminishing it. And how is it that pro bush apologists can't see this.
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Shankari25
May 10, 2007, 5:32 p.m.
Is this an example of the freedom that the US brought to Iraq? Which part is the freedom, the dropping out of school, the poverty, or the bomb-making?