Schools, Kids Becoming Targets in Iraq

Below is a link to an AP Story about the growing violence towards children in Iraq. Nearly 50% of Iraq's 27 million people are under 18 years old, and as the violence has increased, over 3.4 million have left the traditional school system. This article gives you a better understanding of why that is happening.

Schools, Kids Becoming Targets in Iraq
By Abbas Fayadh, AP Writer

BASRA, Iraq - In just two days, at least 150 people have died in the violence threatening to tear apart Iraq. One of them, Hussein Fadhil, was just 13.

The teenager was in front of his school in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, getting ready to walk into the building when a bomb exploded Sunday, the start of the school week in Iraq.

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