Ann sent me a question about Bounder's war blog ("The Iraq War covered from somewhere in the Middle East"), which I hadn't seen before, but will be visiting again. What caught my eye: Publisher Talal Salman of the Beirut daily As-Safir, writes that one of his relatives, a former explosives expert in the Lebanese Army, is one of the 6,000 Arab volunteers who have flocked to fight for Saddam in Iraq. He says Iraq is easily reachable by volunteers thanks to the "courageous position" taken by Syria's President Bashar Assad. "They route is so quick they're in Mosul already, along with volunteers from Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Yemen and Jordan who are now in Baghdad or on the way." Must have been pretty happy to get to Mosul, by golly... |