Now this beats anything in The Onion:
Iraqi Kurdistan is technically occupied by a foreign power, but this occupation surely ranks among one of the most absurd in human history. Dr. Ali Sindi, advisor to Prime Minister Nechervan Barzani, told me that South Korea is the official occupier of “Northern Iraq.” Korean soldiers are stationed just outside Erbil in a base near the airport. He laughed when he told me the Kurdish military, the Peshmerga (“those who face death”), surround the South Koreans to make sure they’re safe.
A country still occupied by the U.S. military sends soldiers to occupy a region of a country now occupied by the U.S. military. If that ain't a Gordian knot for the post-colonial studies folk to try and untangle…
Michael Tottent's excellent photojournalism continues here. A simple pic:
inkheart has great graphics but the story is not that very impressive.,