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WNR: Boy Scouts in Iraq

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From "On My Honor" (February 27, 2009): War News Radio reports on one American's efforts to help bring scouting back to post-Saddam Iraq. Read the full description.
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Wnrpodart_medium Though most people wouldn't associate the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts with Iraq, the country actually has a long scouting tradition. During the reign of Saddam Hussein, the Baath party began using scouting as a military training program for young Iraqis. As a result, Iraqi scouting lost its official standing, but it may soon get it back. War News Radio's Kyle Goeckner-Wald reports on the efforts currently under way to re-establish Iraq's scouting tradition.

The piece was first featured in "On My Honor" on February 27, 2009.

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Though most people wouldn't associate the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts with Iraq, the country actually has a long scouting tradition. During the reign of Saddam Hussein, the Baath party began using scouting as a military training program for young Iraqis. As a result, Iraqi scouting lost its official standing, but it may soon get it back. War News Radio's Kyle Goeckner-Wald reports on the efforts currently under way to re-establish Iraq's scouting tradition.

The piece was first featured in "On My Honor" on February 27, 2009.

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