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14:34 September 21st, 2007

Doing the math…

Posted by: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly Editor
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U.S. assigns officials to clear Iraqi refugee logjam

But up to now, the United States has resettled only 990 Iraqis on American soil, a U.S. official said. That is less than 1 percent of more than 10,000 refugees allocated for admission to the United States by the U.N. High Commissioner on Refugees.

In your article “US assigns officials to clear Iraqi refugee logjam”, you state that 990 Iraqi refugees have been re-settled out of the allocated limit of 10,000. You then claim that this is less than 1%. You might want to check that arithmetic again — by my calculations, that would be 9.9%.

Bruce R.

You’re right. We did a correction: GBU Editor

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