Word: bedouin
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...that is show business, so maybe I can understand the belly dancers selling out. What really hurt me was seeing some Bedouin Arabs, noble inhabitants of the desert, pushing souvenirs, camel rides and water bottles at the many tourist sites around Cairo. Reading about Bedouins, dreaming about Bedouins, never did I imagine a Bedouin ensnaring me in a camel riding scam. But then there I was, at the Giza pyramids, atop a camel, begging its owner to let me down. The Bedouin who got me up there was telling me that he would only let me down...
...allies expected to face on their first push into Iraq was gone by the time they got there. Columns of U.S. and British tanks, trucks, humvees and armored personnel carriers fanned out across the southern Iraqi desert on the road to Baghdad. In the war's first days, Bedouin campsites were a more common sight than Iraqi garrisons. Some U.S. troops could barely hide their disappointment at not coming under enemy fire. "What the hell did we come here to do?" asked First Sergeant William Mitchell, 34, a member of Charlie Rock Company, the 3rd Infantry Division's 3rd Brigade...
...Bedouin do not have many riches, and sheep and camel herds account for what they do have. Even by Bedouin standards the people I saw are impoverished. Of the hundred family groupings we passed by, I did not see one flock of sheep with more than 20 animals, and even those small flocks usually had six shepherds watching over them...
...When I passed my first Bedouin family I thought of them as noble, living a lifestyle virtually unchanged since the fall of Babylon. However, the sight of young children at the side of the road begging for MRE's (the U.S. military's "meals ready to eat," which most Americans would consider barely edible) made me look a bit harder at what I was seeing. It occurred to me that this was not just an activity the kids thought would be fun. Rather, it had all of the appearances of an organized effort...
...flat, parched sands of northern Kuwait have grown crowded in the past few weeks. Normally the desert plains are dotted with oilworkers and the occasional weekend tent of a Kuwaiti city dweller connecting with his Bedouin roots. But now the country's northern half is a restricted military zone crammed with more than 100,000 U.S. and British troops. Makeshift firing ranges are double-booked. Patrols practicing forays into Iraqi wastelands bump into one another where their perimeters overlap. When troops from the 101st Airborne Division arrived last week, soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division had to move camp back...