“Lebanon… [a] security risk and nobody ever goes there…”
What would have been some mundane topic about Kenyan public servants receiving higher travel allowances when visiting foreign countries has turned into Beirut/Baghdad bashing by the Tom Odege, the secretary-general of the Union of Kenya Civil Servants:
Apart from Iraq or Lebanon which are security risks and nobody ever goes there, the agenda here is to [...]
From Baghdad: I’ve Landed in Beirut
US Senator Roland Burris may have had a Freudian Slip followed by fumbling comments as he spoke to reports on his Monday trip to Iraq:
At one point during a conference call with reporters, Burris said he had landed in Beirut, not Baghdad. He also said he was “a thousand miles away,” underestimating the distance to [...]
