Inter Press Service
By Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail*
BAQUBA, Jun 18 (IPS) – Just about everyone in Iraq is a loser as a result of the occupation, but none more than women. One of the more obvious signs of that is the very large number of widows.
The Asharq al-Awsat Arab media channel estimated in late 2007 there were 2.3 million widows in Iraq. These include widows from the 1980-1988 war with Iran in…
