August 19, 2004

The Flag: Part II

Anybody else ever wonder what happened to the story of the new Iraqi flag discussed in this forum on April 27? While watching the opening ceremonies of the summer Olympic games, nearly four months later, I was surprised to see the Iraqi team proudly waving little personal-sized versions of Sadaam's 1991 "Allahu Akbar" banner to the roar of the Athens crowd. "What's up with this?" "Why aren't the commentators noting this audacious nose-thumbing?" It took me a fair amount of surfing to find any mention of what had happened to April's symbol of "liberty", and when I did, it wasn't from any news source. Here's what seems to be the current low-down from a site that deserves congratulations on at least being up-to-date.

By the way, among the most misleading (or misled) of the headlines I came across in my search was this one from ESPN. The story itself, however, turns out to be pretty interesting.

Posted by Palabris at August 19, 2004 06:16 AM
Comments

Thanks for researching it and posting a follow up. I suppose this is one of those things that will just stay quiet until it dies.

Posted by: palabris at August 19, 2004 01:57 PM

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