Khoshaba erzählt, dass es in seiner Heimatstadt Basra vor vier Jahren noch 1500 christliche Familien gab, "davon sind jetzt sind vielleicht noch 200 übrig."

Khoshaba mentions that four years ago, 1500 Christian families lived in his home town Basra. "Now, only about 200 of them remain there."

I guess this effect was not intended at all: Spiegel Online reports that tens of thousands of Christians flee from Iraq to Syria because they are persecuted and threatened in Iraq