Monday, August 01, 2005
American sheik
That's sheik, not chic.
Sheik Horn floats around the room in white robe and headdress, exchanging pleasantries with dozens of village leaders.
But he is the only sheik with blonde streaks in his mustache - and the only one who attended country music star Toby Keith's recent concert in Baghdad with fellow U.S. soldiers.
Officially, he is Army Staff Sgt. Dale L. Horn, but to residents of the 37 villages and towns that he patrols he is known as the American sheik.
It seems that Sgt. Horn got to know the Sunnis on his beat so well they made him a sheik, and even "gave him five sheep and a postage stamp of land, fulfilling some of the requirements for sheikdom. Others encouraged him to start looking for a second wife, which Horn's spouse back in Florida immediately vetoed."
One is almost forced to wonder whether T.E. Lawrence, up there some place, is smiling down on Sgt. Horn.
CWCID: Glenn.
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