AMERICAN DEATHS HAVE PASSED 2,800…… NOW STANDING AT 2,803 AND 1,283 IRAQI DEATHS JUST THIS MONTH.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have fled the unrelenting violence in their homeland since the U.S. invasion in 2003 - a mass exodus directed primarily to neighboring Arab countries.

But a growing tide of Iraqis is seeking shelter and a new start in Europe, where Sweden is emerging as the destination of choice due to relatively lax immigration laws.

The number of Iraqis applying for asylum in the 25 countries of the European Union rose by nearly 50 percent to 7,300 in the first six months of the year, bucking a downward trend in the total number of asylum’seekers, U.N. statistics show.

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