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September 06, 2004

Whozzat?

Please don't tell me that we got the identity wrong of a person named Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri. Do you know what this means? Puns have supplanted irony as the chief law of the universe.

At least it can't get much worse.

Posted by D. Weinberger at September 6, 2004 08:56 AM

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Must've been his brother, Whoddat.

Supposedly the confusion arose because the capture came at a baseball game ...

Posted by: Seth Finkelstein | September 6, 2004 01:44 PM

Ah, if only you could hear the jokes Arabs make about English-language names!

Twisting and tweaking proper names remains a constant source of entertainment and amusement for Arabic speakers. The cross-lingual ones are quite fun as well. Guess what a "zip" disk means in Arabic?

Posted by: w | September 6, 2004 07:08 PM

Do tell, w! I'd love to hear some of the jokes...

Posted by: David Weinberger | September 7, 2004 07:57 AM

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