Iraqi refugees settling locally among a growing number nationwide  
 * By SONIA SMITH
 * Advocate staff writer
 * Published: Apr 19, 2009

Iraqi refugee Majed Abbas walked down the jetway into Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport on Dec. 3, the 10th anniversary of his wedding day.

His wife and three young children did not accompany him on the flight from Damascus. They were killed, he said, along with his elderly parents, almost three years earlier when Shiite insurgents burned their Baghdad home.

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