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Iraq family turned back by US says cleared for entry
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Arbil, Iraq (AFP) Feb 1, 2017


Iraq president says US travel ban 'a shock'
Baghdad (AFP) Feb 1, 2017 - President Fuad Masum said Wednesday that his American counterpart Donald Trump's decision to ban Iraqi citizens from entering the United States was "a shock" and called for it to be reviewed.

Masum is the latest in a string of Iraqi officials to condemn Trump's executive order last week barring citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from US entry for at least 90 days, a move billed as an effort to make America safe from "radical Islamic terrorists".

Iraq's inclusion among "the countries whose citizens are prohibited from travelling to the United States is a shock to us", Masum said in a statement.

He called on the US "to be just to people fighting terrorism with the blood of their sons and their resources on behalf of the whole world, including the United States".

Iraqi forces are more than three months into a massive operation to retake Mosul, the country's last city in which the Islamic State jihadist group holds significant ground.

They have been fighting against IS with the support of a US-led international coalition for more than two years.

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi made a similar case on Tuesday, saying Trump's travel restrictions punished "people who are sacrificing, who are fighting terrorism".

And Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said: "We reject... the decision".

Iraq's parliament had voted to back reciprocal restrictions on Americans if Washington does not change course.

The travel curbs follow assertions by Trump that the US should have seized Iraq's oil before withdrawing in 2011 and risk alienating a key US ally in the fight against IS.

Fuad Sharef, an Iraqi man barred along with his family from the United States by President Donald Trump's travel ban, has been informed they can now enter the country, he said Wednesday.

Sharef, his wife, and three children -- who all hold valid US visas -- were prevented from boarding a flight to New York's JFK airport while transiting through Cairo on Saturday and flew back to Arbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region.

He told AFP that he received a call from the US embassy in Iraq on Wednesday informing him he could now make the trip.

"The US embassy called me and said you and SIV holders can travel," he said, referring to Special Immigrant Visas, which were available to people who worked with the US in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"Everyone is happy. We can't describe how happy we are," he said, adding that he plans to fly to Nashville, Tennessee next week.

The 51-year-old pharmaceutical industry manager formerly worked with an NGO contracted by the US Agency for International Development in Iraq, a job that put him at risk of attack by extremists.

He said he had sold his home and furniture to fund his family's travel to the United States.

Trump signed an executive order last week barring citizens of Iraq, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya and Yemen from entering the US for at least 90 days, a move billed as an effort to make America safe from "radical Islamic terrorists".

The restrictions have sparked a backlash in Iraq, whose forces are fighting against jihadists, and the country's parliament voted to back reciprocal restrictions on Americans if Washington does not change course.


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