And that sort of manifested itself on that first morning when he very kindly asked me if I'd like a drink of waterand got me somewater, and then just minutes later repeated that question, and then repeated it again and again over that first day we were together.
An interruption to the electricity andwater supplies in Basra, a city of more than 1m people caused, America says, by Iraq has threatened the health of its population, obliging some of them to wash in anddrink dirty river water.