A leaflet envoy, organized by Knoxville area Jehovah’s Witnesses, has left for Iraq as of late yesterday afternoon. The group boarded a plane at McGhee Tyson Airport on their way to Turkey, where they will board a double decker bus and enter Iraq. The bus will take them first to Baghdad, where they will take leaflets door-to-door. The leaflets will include copies of The Watchtower, translated into Arabic, as well as a book containing 16-well-illustrated lessons on What God Requires of Us. They will be meeting with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, and although they cannot promise they will not try to convert him, they hope to encourage him to provide proof he has destroyed his weapons of mass destruction. Bill Huckabee, the group’s representative, told reporters that they would like to pick up where the human shield and Catholics left off by organizing a grassroots movement in Iraq. “If we could convert Saddam, that would be just tremendous,” he said. If that fails, they will exit the country, leaving the human shield to its own devices.
