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To: LindyBill who wrote (98892)	5/23/2003 6:12:52 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

Seeing Baghdad on the Dinars Club By Al Kamen - WASHINGTON POST Thomas Wolfe said you can't go home again. Actually, you can, but it may cost you. That's what some of the many government workers dispatched in late March to Baghdad to work on reconstruction are finding out. The workers, detailed to the Office of Humanitarian and Reconstruction Assistance, went by military plane to Kuwait, stayed there a bit on 30-day visas and then continued on by military plane to Baghdad. Now, after six weeks or so, the first arrivals are recycling home, going military charter again to Kuwait and then taking commercial flights to the States. But it seems Kuwaiti officials have discovered the Americans overstayed their visas in Kuwait and must pay 10 Kuwaiti dinar a day -- about $30 -- for each day over, in order to fly out. Baghdad? Doesn't say on your passport you went to Baghdad, the ever-grateful Kuwaitis told the aid workers. Says here you overstayed your Kuwaiti visa and, by the way, we only take cash. In one instance, the fines amounted to more than $600, we're told, and the U.S. Embassy was unable to straighten things out in time. This could get pricey as more people leave. Was Kuwait a French colony at one time? REST AT:http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A28962-2003May22?language=printer