Wednesday, January 08, 2003

This article in the Economist noted that Saddam Hussein gave a speech assailing the U.N. weapon inspectors on January 6th, which is “Army Day” in Iraq. Since I don’t imagine there are many Easter Egg hunts there, I checked out Iraq’s other holidays:

January 6th – Army Day
February 14th – Ramadan Revolution Day
March 21st – Nau Roy (New Day)(Iraqi Kurds)
May 1st – Labour Day
July 14th – Republic Day
July 17th – Ba’ath Revolution Day
August 8th – Peace Day

And here are some future holidays:

February 22nd – Glorious Defense of our Beloved Leader from the Great Satan Day
February 27th – Liberation Day
March 1st – Burqa-disguised cowardly Tyrant captured while trying to flee to Libya Day
November 11th – Election Day

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