Michael Totten provides a fifth installment on his travels in Northern Iraq.
Dohok is not a large city. Perhaps 750,000 people live there. Somehow it feels even smaller. I wouldn’t say it’s a backwater, but it’s not a cosmopolitan capital either. The more time I spend in the Iraqi Kurdistan cities of Suleimaniya and Dohok the more I think they really are so much like Utah.
I suspect he means Salt Lake City rather than greater Utah, but point taken.
Read the whole thing.
Posted by Mick Stockinger on April 19, 2006 1:05 AM
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