Fallujah plants a quarter million olive trees...

Residents of Fallujah, lead by Cultural House, are organizing an effort to plant 250,000 olive trees around the city to promote peace and understanding, reports Reuters.

The first trees were planted Wednesday near a football pitch that became a graveyard for the victims of the U.S. military assault against insurgents holed up in the city. The aim is to plant 250,000 trees by April, organizers said.

"It is a peace message to all Iraqi cities to cast away all the sectarian and ethnic issues and hold together," said Hassan Muhammed, a member of Falluja's Cultural House group....

"Falluja is a dear city and there is no difference between a person in the south, in the west or in the north, we are all brothers," said Haider Abdul allah, a Shi'ite from the city of Hilla, south of Baghdad, who also took part in the campaign.

The disturbing thing about this story is that this is the only reference I can find to the item on the entire web, and Reuters is reporting it in their Oddly Enough news of the weird section.

Does that creep anyone else out?