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Thanks,

Enjoy the Jamboree.

Scouting is an organization that I dropped out of when I was 10. Dumb mistake. I now have a Tiger and a Webelo.

Scouting is an organization that I become more and more impressed with. I'm now a den leader (tiger), asst. den leader (Webelo), Asst. Cubmaster (planning on a hostile takeover of the Pack in 2 years when the Cubmaster moves on)

300 or so Scouters just met last weekend for University of Scouting leadership training. Great, great stuff.

BTW, if you get this before you go, please write a post and ping me about it on how the World Jamboree went. I'm particularly interested in the progress with Iraqi Scouting programs.

Thanks,

Thanks for your support of Scouting. We had a glitch in communication -- I was on my way to a MEETING about the 2007 World Jamboree. I won't be leaving for the actual Jamboree until mid-July 2007.

There is no current Iraqi Scouting organization in the World Organization of Scouting (Iraq was expelled in 1999 after Saddam Hussein turned Iraqi Scouting into his private program, with hand-to-hand fighting drills).

For a description of the Iraqi Scouting Initiative, an attempt to re-introduce Scouting to Iraq, see Jamboree Jihad, from Outside magazine, October 2004.

To make a donation to the Iraqi Scouting Initiative, send your check to:

The World Friendship Fund
Boy Scouts of America
1325 West Walnut Hill Lane
PO Box 152079
Irving, Texas 75015-2079

Make your check out to the "World Friendship Fund." On the notation line at the bottom of your check, please write "for the Iraqi Scouting Initiative." One hundred percent of all donations go to the Iraqi Scouting programs.