Sgt. 1st Class Herbert Mowery and 1st Lt. Gabrielle Caldara pet acheetah during an assessment of the Baghdad Zoo March 19, 2007.
From Newsweek:
Dr. Adel Salman Mousa, director of the Baghdad Zoo, was far too polite to go into the details of why it is that his zoo needed the gift of two tigers that had just arrived from the United States. Asked what happened to the zoo's previous tigers, he just says, "That was a very sad incident, but we're starting a new day and we don't want to think about that." The tigers were presented to the press and public on a searing hot morning, and they ignored all the cameras to frolic in their wading pool. "The U.S. military worked for more than a year to bring these animals to the zoo," Mousa says, "and get the zoo back to bring a smile back to the kids and the public after years of degradation and misery."
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