A Knock on the Door Leads to Nightmare (washingtonpost.com)



MOSUL, Iraq, July 23--Nawaf Zaidan Nasiri answered the front door of his elegant mansion 24 days ago, and greeted a nightmare.



Standing there, he told his neighbors Tuesday, were the two sons of Saddam Hussein, Qusay and Uday, Iraq�s second- and third-most wanted fugitives, asking Zaidan to repay years of privilege and favors they had doled out to him.



"I answered the doorbell and there they were, right in front of my face," Zaidan told his neighbor, Mukhlis Thahir Jubori. "They asked to stay in my house and I could not refuse them. This is a disaster for me.



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Nobody recalled seeing anyone suspicious at the house, but they said Zaidan had been acting different lately. Normally, they said, Zaidan would wait until the brutal desert sun had set, then set out plastic chairs on the sidewalk in front of his house every night. Zaidan, Thahir and other men from the neighborhood would drink sweet tea and Pepsi and chew over current events. Then just over three weeks ago, Zaidan stopped putting out the chairs.



"I went over to his house and asked him, is everything okay? Can I come in?�" Thahir said. "And he said no. He said his wife's relatives were visiting and they were very busy."

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Hey doesn't that last part sound like King Of The Hill? In the alley having a cold one "and chew over current events?"



yep yep yep dang old um yep