BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iraq log: 10 December 2004

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iraq log: 10 December 2004 ()

  „They arrived at 0930 and were recognised by a man who brought them coffee instead of the traditional tea. He remembered the lieutenant from three weeks ago when he gave the man a pound of American coffee called "Seattle's Best". Through a translator the man said that soon he'll make the Americans' coffee from fresh tap water, not bottled water. The coffee was thick and sweet, flavoured with cardamom.“

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