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  • Darwin Award in the Making? "Japanese Tourists Visiting Iraq" (No Joke!)

    02/12/2003 2:48:17 PM PST · by AmericanInTokyo · 18 replies · 385+ views
    Japan News Today (Kyodo News) ^ | 13 February 2003 | Japan News Today
    Japanese Tourists Venture into Iraq Hironao Oguma Wednesday, February 12, 2003 at 16:50 JST AMMAN, Jordan — Foreign tourists to Baghdad are not at liberty to browse in the streets and are prohibited from taking grand portraits of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. But Iraq, which has been declared "game over" by U.S. President George Bush, is in headlong eagerness to promote tourism campaigns this year. On Monday, a group of eight Japanese tourists headed to the Iraqi capital from Amman in Jordan along a 700-kilometer road across the desert."I studied world history. I wanted to see Mesopotamian (ancient Iraq)...