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Beer surge to bring peace, hangovers to Iraq

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13-Oct-2008
        
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Beer: it has a number of exit strategies A beer hall in Iraq has held its own version of Munich's famous Oktoberfest party - complete with frothy steins, sausages, an oom-pah band and dirndl-clad waitresses. German-born Gunter Voelker, owner of the Deutscher Hof Erbil restaurant in Irbil, in Kurdish controlled Northern Iraq, says he... [read full story]                    

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By Simon Reynolds, Entertainment Reporter A restaurant owner in Northern Iraq has held his own version of Munich's Oktoberfest. German-born Gunter Voelker, who runs the Deutscher Hof Erbil restaurant in Kurdish city Irbil,...

                   

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13-Oct-2008
        

Especially since an Iraqi town held an Oktoberfest. We can make this festival with Iraqi people, Turkish people, Kurdish people, American people, German people, with (people from) all over the world in peace and in a real good...

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13-Oct-2008
        

Last Modified: 13 Oct 2008 Source: PA News A beer hall in Iraq has held its own version of Munich's famous Oktoberfest party - complete with frothy steins, sausages, an oom-pah band and dirndl-clad waitresses. German-born...

                   

Dirndls, Oom-Pah, Sausages? Oktoberfest in Iraq

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13-Oct-2008
        

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Dirndl-clad waitresses deliver frothy beers, the brass band has the oom-pah music in full drive and there are sausages on the grill. Welcome to Iraq? It may still be a far cry from the Oktoberfest party in...

                   
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Dirndls, oom-pah, sausages? Oktoberfest in Iraq

apn.co.nz
13-Oct-2008
        

BAGHDAD - Dirndl-clad waitresses deliver frothy beers, the brass band has the oom-pah music in full drive and there are sausages on the grill. Welcome to Iraq? It may still be a far cry from the Oktoberfest party in Munich,...