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Dhiya Hamid al-Karbuli, a truck dri­ver from a vil­lage near the Syr­ian bor­der, said he fled with his wife, six chil­dren, his brother, sis­ter and mother after U.S. troops com­man­deered their home last month.

They broke into my house before Ramadan and they are still there,” he told The Asso­ci­ated Press by tele­phone from his brother’s home in Bagh­dad. “We were not able to tol­er­ate see­ing them dam­age our house in front of our very eyes.… I was afraid to ask them to leave.”

They were eat­ing our food. They took all the food from the refrig­er­a­tor, and used all our stored junk food too. The major gave me $20 so we could shop for our­selves and for them. It was not enough.”

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