Just before we begin:
Texas was one of the most-known US States, because of cowboy movies, and shoot-outs in the streets seen in those movies. When Iraqis used to see or hear a shoot-out, they'd say "Sayra Texas", meaning "it's like Texas". I wonder what would the original cowboys in the 1700's and 1800's would've said if they know about us: "Hey, Billy (the Kid), this looks like Baghdad"!
The recent days witnessed some events, the most important of which is the following:
A joint US-Iraqi patrol came by, and stayed around for about 1 hour. So i had the chance to takea photo through my mobile phone.
We are here, where you don't have to go to events, but they come to you!
It seems that they were investigating something in the area. We didn't ask anyone about the raid's outcome, and not asking may be a good thing to do. Sometimes, not knowing is much better than knowing things.
A passing by thought, brought giggles when discussed at home: Iraqis would usually ask someone "from which tribe you are?". Or "minn ya amaam?" literally meaning "from which uncles?". The answer would be "from Albu-......." dots representing the name of tribe. The partition of a tribe is called "fakhith" (=branch), or more literally "thigh"!!!
So, imagine if this dude on top of the near humvee was ever asked "minn ya amaam?", and he would respond "from Albu-Texas, fakhith Al-Bush" (= Bush's thigh).....
GWB: "And my thighs are the thighs of freedom, and freedom is good..."
Ewwwwwwww!!!!!
