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Iraqis, troops share food, discussion during training.

The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)

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Byline: Louis Hansen

Mar. 11--NORFOLK -- As steam rose from a nearby tray of rice and lamb, an Iraqi sheik huddled with a three-star general at Norfolk Naval Station.

From a cushion on the floor, the sheik made a simple plea in Arabic: Help us help ourselves. Give us jobs and you will have security in Iraq. "Just employ the people," the well-dressed man said through a translator. "Empower them." It was a training-over-dinner session one night this week, but the Iraqi, Adulamir al-Jaber, carried a certain cache. He had returned from his country just three weeks ago, where at home in southern Iraq, al-Jaber is a sheik and leader of a community of 35,000. The general and a ...

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