[lbo-talk] old iraqi saying

[Stephen E Philion]

There is an old Iraqi saying -- very old," said Hussein Ali Tukmachi, a 
sign painter in Kadhimiya. "Me and my brother against my cousin. Me and 
my brother and my cousin against a stranger." 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62783-2004Apr8_2.html