"EL CAJON – Iraq's government is considering San Diego as a possible site for a consulate that would serve thousands of Iraqi-Americans in California, Iraq's top diplomat to the United States said yesterday in El Cajon.


Iraqi Ambassador Samir Sumaidaie said San Francisco and Los Angeles are also in the running and that he will make his recommendation after he returns to Washington, D.C. He met with more than 250 Iraqi-Americans at the Ronald Reagan Community Center in El Cajon, where he discussed the situation in Iraq and fielded questions in Arabic and English."

Ha!! You notice there aren't any Brave New World Ambassadors flocking to POcatello, don't you??? Well??? Ha.

\'COurse the locals kinda grin about it being out in El Cajon, an arid sub-city to the east of SD proper. But, hey, when you're from 20,000 miles away, you can be expected not to get the small stuff right...


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