[Fred Nerks]

...just left many of them in the street when they fled the Iraqi forces.

Sunday morning in Australia, the drought has broken, the coffee's great...and now THIS!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well,...it's still Sat afternoon here on the Left Coast....so happy Sunday morning to you a...and I hope you liked that note about the weapons....and what do you make of this from the Iranian Ambassador:

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Whether to counter those allegations or simply because, as many Iraqis have recently speculated, Mr. Sadr’s stock has recently fallen in Iranian eyes, the Iranian ambassador, Hassan Kazemi Qumi, on Saturday expressed his government’s strong support for the Iraqi assault on Basra. He even called the militias in Basra “outlaws,” the same term that Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki has used to describe them.

“The idea of the government in Basra was to fight outlaws,” Mr. Qumi said. “This was the right of the government and the responsibility of the government. And in my opinion the government was able to achieve a positive result in Basra.”