Baghdad cat lady saves Iraqi animals

Louise, whose first name was only used in this Associated Press article because of security reasons, works to save small animals caught in the fighting of the Iraqi war.

It all started when Simba, a white cat with "tabby bits," strolled onto a U.S. military base. Soon came the planning for Operation Puss 'n' Boots — as the Simba journey was dubbed by Louise's colleagues when she worked at the Army outpost near Tikrit, about 80 miles north of Baghdad.

An Iraqi working with Louise was heading to Basra in southern Iraq. She asked if he could take Simba to the border with Kuwait, where an English friend would be waiting.

Just south of Baghdad, a car bomb exploded a few yards from the cab, but no one was hurt. At the border, Simba crossed into Kuwait with the cat hidden.

And the article also tells us what else we are paying a former Halliburton company to do over in Iraq.

Thousands of stray cats and dogs in Baghdad's Green Zone and on U.S. military installations across Iraq have been trapped and euthanized for health reasons under a program carried out for the military by the contractor KBR Inc., a former Halliburton subsidiary.