And what right do we have to kill people fleeing Iraq?

He said he fled Iraq 25 years ago after being threatened by the government.

Two days later, the men and their families fled Iraq.

Between 1949 and 1950, almost all these professional musicians fled Iraq for Israel.

The construction of the church fulfuilled a promise he had made to himself when he fled Iraq in the late-1950s.

Colleagues and friends have fled Iraq, and he is making similar plans.

He came to occupy it in 1988 when he and thousands of others fled northern Iraq during yet another departure.

Two million fled Iraq while approximately 2.7 million are internally displaced people.

But it also straddles the principal escape route for war refugees trying to flee Iraq.

In recent years, 900 000 Christians have fled Iraq.