Word: diwaniyas
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Dates: during 2004-2004
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...around sophisticated electronic equipment in search of work. His Arabic was awful, and he had a habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. In January, during his first prospecting trip to Iraq, Berg was picked up during a police sweep in the southern town of Diwaniya, where "there are supposedly a good deal of Iranian spies who wander over and sneak about," he told friends in an email, adding, "Isn't this starting to read like a mystery novel...