Iraqi troops defend Britain.
Going off at a bit of a tangent I'm afraid but it's been revealed that a "...unit of Iraqis, probably from the Basra region, formed part of the Roman troops defending the empire from incursions at its northernmost border, Hadrian's Wall. A Roman document from about AD400 called the Notitia Dignitatum... refers to an irregular unit... from the Tigris, based at Arbeia, the fort nearest modern South Shields. The name Arbeia itself could be derived from the Latin for Arab."*
I wonder what religion those troops practiced...
* Extract from an article in today's Guardian, page 10.
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