QAL'AT SUKKAR, Iraq--Blaring warnings from Humvee-mountedloudspeakers, the U.S. Marines sent residents of this rural townscurrying Monday when the troops arrived to demolish symbols ofPresident Saddam Hussein's regime.
But any tension melted quickly into jubilation when the people ofQal'at Sukkar learned one of their own had come home.
Khuder al-Emeri, 43, left his Seattle restaurant behind threemonths ago to join the Free Iraqi Forces, a group of exiles trainedby the U.S. military to serve as interpreters and guides in Iraq.
Wearing desert camouflage, his return to the Shiite village wherehe once led an uprising against Saddam's regime was a whirlwind oftears …
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