Monday, December 15, 2003

DOES ANYONE ELSE FIND THIS STRANGE?
"I don't believe it," shouted Khalid Mahmud, at one shop as the news broke, but his brother was already dashing outside with an AK47 to fire jubilant rounds in the air.

"It's like celebrating a hundred Christmases," said his cousin, firing madly into the air until Iraqis nearby told him to watch where he was shooting.

That in a moment of ecstasy a (presumed) arab compares this moment of joy to...Christmas...?

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