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Iraq has many problems. Ebola isnt one of them.
The World Health Organization and the Ministry of Health in Iraq made that clear in a statement late Monday, saying there are no suspected infections from the deadly virus in the country. That came after rumors spread online and through several media outlets on Dec. 31. Most of them cited anonymous medical sources in the city of Mosul, which has been under the control of Islamic State militants since June.
The virus spreading through Iraq would have raised concerns for both the local population and American troops who recently began training the Iraqi military. According to the discredited reports, the virus was said to have been brought to Iraq by militants and other migrants coming to the country from Africa.
Health officials said that simply isnt true. The Ministry of Health and World Health Organization investigated the reports through surveillance networks and contacts with medical sources in Mosul, and found that there were no cases of the virus.
The Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization further confirmed that the laboratory facilities in Mosul do not have the necessary capabilities to diagnose and confirm the Ebola Virus, according to the joint statementa question that was raised by skeptics when the rumors spread last week.
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Dan Lamothe covers national security for The Washington Post and anchors its military blog, Checkpoint.
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No, there arent any Ebola cases in Iraq
A Shiite flag flies over a destroyed checkpoint at the entrance of Balad, Iraq, on Saturday. (Hadi Mizban, AP)
RAWASHID, Iraq Sunni residents of this tiny village north of Baghdad are all gone. Their homes now have Shiite graffiti scrawled on the walls. Shiite banners, many emblazoned with images of revered saints, are hoisted on the roofs.
The only people here now are Shiite fighters, who nearly two weeks ago helped Iraqi forces wrest the town from the Islamic State. Outside one of the homes the fighters have occupied, their leader sat with his men on a recent day, warming themselves by a fire, where tea brewed.
He made it clear: They have no intention of allowing the Sunnis back, accusing them of supporting the extremists.
"If we allow the residents of this village to return to their homes, they will do it all over again to us," said Adnan Hassan, 59.
The militants used the village to fire mortars at the nearby, mainly Shiite city of Balad and they still hold villages only a few miles away.
"These are our lands. They were taken away from us centuries ago," he said.
Hassan's claim of Shiite ownership of the lands is tenuous at best. But his comments expose a grim side of Iraq's fight against the Sunni militants of the Islamic State group: The war is being used by Shiite militiamen to change the demographics of Sunni areas, to solidify Shiite control. The practice appears mostly focused on Sunni areas astride roads leading to important Shiite shrines to the north and south of the capital, Baghdad.
"What we are dealing with here is a real attempt at demographic change, coupled with blatant abuses," Sunni politician Hamed al-Mutlaq said. "It is now extremely difficult for the Sunnis to return to their homes" not because their homes have been destroyed, he added. "It is genuine fear that is stopping them."
All along the highway from Baghdad to Balad, the depopulation is clear along with the sectarian nature of the fight.
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Iraq's battle against extremist becomes a sectarian purge
Ayman Oghanna for The New York Times American military personnel, recently deployed to Iraq, found remnants of the previous United States military presence, mostly untouched since their comrades left Camp Taji three years earlier.
CAMP TAJI, Iraq The calendar on the wall reads November 2011.
On the ground is a half-filled tin of Copenhagen smokeless tobacco. Scattered here and there are bottles of Gatorade, cans of Rip It energy drinks, poker chips, Monopoly money and razor blades.
Stenciled on a wall is a punchy soldiers slogan: I will always place the mission first. I will never accept defeat. Taped on another is a note of encouragement from a Boy Scout troop back home: You are our hero and your commitment to freedom is honorable.
There is even a jar of salsa still in the fridge.
When the American troops left Iraq three years ago, they left behind a fragile country that collapsed into civil war. They also left behind the detritus of soldiers lives that, in the ensuing years, was left untouched, frozen in time.
Now that American forces, in much smaller numbers, are returning to help the Iraqis confront the extremists of the Islamic State, they have found themselves reoccupying some of their old places. And they are excavating what feels like a slowly decaying time capsule as they discover the things they left behind.
When the Americans left, they turned over their bases to the Iraqis. But here at Taji, aside from some buildings that were clearly ransacked and probably looted of anything valuable, many of the spaces, now covered in a thick coat of dust, were left alone.
One soldier said he found pinups from Maxim, a mens magazine, still on the walls. And the last copies of Stars and Stripes, the armed forces newspaper, delivered just before the American departure, are still scattered about the floor of one of the bathrooms. The score from an NFL playoff game in 2011, now considered a classic upset, is painted across an awning: Saints 36, Seahawks 41.
At Taji, about 20 miles north of Baghdad and once home to a sprawling American air base, even the street signs the Americans posted are still up. Separating a patch of housing units from the cavernous aircraft hangars is the corner of Longhorn Avenue and 46th Street.
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