RUWEISHED: Hiba Ali and Fauziah Moumein are now safe at a refugee camp in Jordan but their hearts are with the Iraqi people they left behind.
The two Somali girls on an Iraqi government scholarship at the University of Baghdad took a US$50 (RM190) bus ride, which took eight hours to cross into the Jordanian border from the Iraqi capital, a day before US-led forces started bombing.
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