- Photos of Saddam's 'spider hole' show a palm with dates
on it. Some are claiming that palms only produce date fruit in the summer,
therefore the photo is a hoax. Not true, say scores of Arab posts...
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- A note from one of our readers:
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- The dates thing?? There are blogs all over the world
from people in that region
- saying this is ridiculous -- that the people claiming
dates only ripen and
- appear during certain seasons are absolutely misinformed.
This is right up there with
- the fake beard stuff
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- from Al Jazeera -
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- Abu Mishaal pointed out that the uniforms, which the
soldiers were wearing, indicated that the capture took place in winter.
Al-Watan Arabic newspaper said, quoting its Baghdad reporter, that the
Iraqis had paid no attention to the date theory.
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- Hatem Al-Natour, an agriculture engineer at the Arabian
Company for Agricultural Systems in Riyadh, said ripe dates could be seen
on date palms in summer. "Summer is the season when dates ripen under
the sun," he pointed out. Muhammad Al-Dossary, however, who has been
engaged in date cultivation in the Aflaj region for several years, pointed
out that there is a special kind of date, "hilali", which yields
its fruits at this time of the year.
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- Iraq is the native place of hilali dates which are now
found in Saudi Arabia and other countries, Dossary told Al-Eqtisadiah,
a sister publication of Arab News. "Even yesterday, I ate hilali dates
taken from the tree," he told the newspaper. The season for dates
is usually between June and July but in some countries, the date ripening
period may be extended.
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- http://www.aljazeerah.info/News%20archives/2003%20News%20archives/December/18
%20n/Dates%20Clash%20With%20Saddam's%20Day%20of%20Destiny.htm
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- Dates ripen between June and December in Middle Eastern
and Mediterranean
- countries.
- http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0010812.html
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