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Friend in Need After a struggle that looked more like mud-wrestling than statesmanship, the British government announced it would send 850 soldiers from its zone in southern Iraq to the American zone near Baghdad. When news of the redeployment first broke - via leaks by family members who were outraged that the soldiers wouldn't be home for Christmas as planned - Prime Minister Tony Blair had an ugly fight on his hands. Only 40% of British people now think the Iraq war was justified, and to many M.P.s, including previously loyal members of Blair's Labour Party, this additional accommodation...
Entitled “Field Photography: The Marsh Arabs of Iraq,” the exhibit offers a unique glimpse into the lives of Iraq’s Marsh Arabs or Ma’dan tribes that until the mid-1980s lived in mud huts on southern Iraq’s rich Tigris and Euphrates Rivers...
...have] all these crazy treatments,” Perkins said yesterday. “We do a Caribbean therapy body treatment which is a scrub and then you’re masked in brown and red mud. You’re wrapped up like a bug and then you’re rinsed in a shower and then you’re massaged with rose...
...also argue that we are never bothered by bad things to the degree that we anticipate. Have you ever, say, stepped in a puddle of mud, felt sore about it for an exceedingly long time and thought to yourself, “I’m not supposed to do this...
...Early last week, Pakistani commandos disguised in turbans and tribal tunics surrounded the mud house where five of Mesud's men were holding the hostages. On Thursday, according to Lieut. General Safdar Hussain, the regional commander, a shot was heard inside the house. Fearing that the militants were executing their captives, the general said, the commandos attacked. All five kidnappers were killed in the ensuing gunfight, along with one hostage, 32-year-old engineer Wang Peng, who died of gunshot wounds. His fellow captive Wang Ende, 49, was rescued alive. Meanwhile, Mesud was several kilometers away, in touch with...