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Cold Calling the Commies

2007-03-26 21:39:47.499674+02 by petronius 0 comments

[EDIT: Crap! Petronius, I tried to fix this, but somehow mucked it up! Can you insert the right link?]

A US journalist in Iraq goes looking for ex-communist Iranians in Northern Iraq, but ends up accidently having lunch with textbook Marxist-Leninist Khurds. A strange tale of ideological purity and Middle Eastern hospitality.

[ related topics: Journalism and Media Military ]

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