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IRAQ: A real international house of pancakes

January 22, 2008 | 10:07 am

Servers in the chow hall today were from Sri Lanka, Kenya, India and Nepal. The guy behind me was an electrician from Bosnia. His buddy, from Croatia, missed breakfast. He was having an equipment problem fixed at the Gilgamesh Tailors, run by Turks.

Tony Perry at Al Asad, Irad

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