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To: Rollcast... who wrote (43828)	3/25/2003 7:43:04 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

Troops find chocolate is key to new friends From Daniel McGrory in Umm Qasr <<Calling someone a moron because their predictions are wrong? Imagine that. >> A YOUNG Iraqi boy in a torn red T-shirt was the first to show his face yesterday. He peered out from behind a gate, unsure what to do as two Royal Marine commandos strode down the muddy street towards him. Marine Andrew Chilvers dropped to one knee, rested his machinegun on the ground and beckoned the boy. He then held out a chocolate bar. The boy hungrily tore off the wrapper, calling for his brothers and sisters to join him. Soon the 21-year-old commando from Middlesbrough was surrounded by outstretched hands. “If only winning the rest of Iraq was this easy,” he smiled. It took five days and nights of intermittent American airstrikes and artillery bombardments to subdue this scruffy little town of 4,000 people that sits at the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab waterway. Rollcast you will be happy to see this....share it with everyone... timesonline.co.uk