Feb 9th, 2008 at 2:00PM: Have you ever been tempted to save that "poor little puppy's" life by airlifting it from its miserable life in Egypt, Greece or Asia, and bringing it home, so you can pamper it with vitamin bones and pet spa treatments? I have friends who have rescued a puppy from one of the Greek islands (don't ask how they got her on the plane) and after 10 years, they are still enjoying each other's company in ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Painful lesson on stray pets in foreign countries
Feb 9th, 2008 at 2:00PM: Have you ever been tempted to save that "poor little puppy's" life by airlifting it from its miserable life in Egypt, Greece or Asia, and bringing it home, so you can pamper it with vitamin bones and pet spa treatments? I have friends who have rescued a puppy from one of the Greek islands (don't ask how they got her on the plane) and after 10 years, they are still enjoying each other's company in ...Savvy Traveler: Arab vs Muslim
Aug 24th, 2007 at 4:05PM: It is a little frightening how many people use the terms "Arab" and "Muslim" interchangeably. Shows how much we know about that region of the world even after years of being intimately involved with the Middle East. One often hears that people say "Arabs" when referring to Iranians. They are actually not Arabs; they are primarily Persians. Yes, they might practice Islam but that's another story. ...New Airline in Iraq Bans Iraqis
Aug 8th, 2007 at 4:32PM: There's a brand new airline in Iraq fittingly called ExPat Airways, and aside from limiting food and alcohol on the flight, they're also banning citizens of Iraq, among other countries. According to ABC News, "Expat Airways said it is only accepting U.S. and Western citizens on its flights as it tries to capitalize on the thousands of U.S. contractors traveling in and out of the Iraqi capital ...iPods Save Lives
Apr 6th, 2007 at 12:01PM: There is some usefulness to iPods, outside of playin' tunes.
Here's a wild photo of an iPod which took a bullet for a soldier in Iraq.
According to the post, the soldier (Kevin Garrad, we're told) faced off against an insurgent with an AK-47. Both fired, just a few feet from each other, and a bullet hit the soldier's chest pocket, holding his iPod. The iPod helped slow the bullet so that it ...Kurdistan Launches Tourism Campaign
Oct 23rd, 2006 at 11:55AM: USA Today runs a rather interesting story on the recent tourism campaign launch to get more travelers into Iraq's Kurdistan region. A California marketing firm involved in helping the Kurdistan Development Corp., recently created a new television ad campaign for the three-province region in Northern Iraq and notes that Westerners are welcomed, walk around the area freely and that there is an ...
