Arab Fighters Trouble Innocent Outsiders

"BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A factory owner is arrested on suspicion of abetting terrorists. A laundry worker goes to get his visa renewed and is thrown in jail. And a cook says some Iraqis now greet him with a clear message: Get out of our country.

They are all Arabs who migrated to oil-rich Iraq years ago to find jobs and escape poverty and political instability at home. But some feel their welcome is wearing out because foreign Arab fighters are being blamed for many of the killings, bombings and kidnappings plaguing the country.

It's the flip side of the human dislocation caused by the war and the insurgency. While hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have fled to the safety of neighboring Arab countries, foreign Arabs in Iraq say some are treating them as terror suspects. Others resent jobs lost to the foreigners in an unemployment-stricken economy."
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