March 30, 2007

In Brief

IRAQI ACADEMICS ARE TARGETS: Iraq's minister of higher education said this month that 196 professors had been murdered, and more than 100 kidnapped, in the four years since a U.S.-led coalition invaded the country, according to a report on Azzaman.com, the Web site of an independent Arab newspaper. Incidents of violence and the fear they have spawned have led "thousands" of Iraqi academics to flee to other countries, said the minister, Abed Dhiyab al-Ajili. Among those incidents are bombings

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