Saturday, February 28, 2009
Meanwhile - in Baghdad
I bet you won't see the American media report this...
However, Tim Albone does in the U.K. TimesOnLine:
"Baghdad has never seen anything quite like it: in the newly reopened al-Khyam bar on the banks of the Tigris a group of American paratroopers, fully armed and dressed for battle, were linked arm in arm with drunken Iraqi revellers as they danced the night away.
'It is good to get a bit of Iraqi culture,' said a soldier from the 82nd Airborne. Three or four of his brothers-in-arms, still wearing body armour and with M4 machineguns slung from their shoulders, did their best to get into the swing. They laughed and joked. Some danced hand in hand with Iraqi women. Some even danced with the men, as is the custom in the Arab world."
