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LOS ANGELES (AP) - When Saddam Hussein was overthrown in 2003, the U.S. government encouraged Iraqis living in America to return home. They were seen as key to the rebuilding, since many were well-educated, well-to-do and supportive of democracy.
But many of those who went back are giving up and returning to America, frightened and disillusioned by the bloodshed in their homeland.
"We were hoping to see a light at the end of the tunnel with the violence. But the light seems to be getting farther and farther away," said 53-year-old Mosadek Al-Attar, who went to Iraq in 2003 to build an Islamic school and help reform the education system but is now back in America.
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