Iraqi refugees in Lebanon start to return back home
Iraq-Lebanon, Politics, 12/17/2003

An official source announced that Lebanon announced yesterday releasing some 273 Iraqis, who were in the Lebanese jails, because of their illegal entry to the Lebanese territories before the collapse of the Iraqi regime.

The official at the Lebanese ministry of the Interior Lt. Gen. Saad Taher Abdullah said that "about 273 Iraqis, all of them men, left Romeyah prison to the north east of Beirut in buses that will take them to Iraq via Syria.

The operation was made under the supervision of a joint delegation from the ministries of the internal affairs and external affairs which had arrived in Lebanon earlier.

Hundreds of Iraqis had resorted to Lebanon, fleeing the former regime of Saddam Hussein, and then from the war launched by the U.S. and U.K. forces against Iraq in March this year.

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