UPDATE: Spiritual guru Dr. Deepak Chopra, wearing peace beads and a Captain America mask, chatted with a fellow human-shield at a lavish Mardi Gras party thrown in their honor by Iraqi leadership.
Dr. Chopra's party was later wisked away to an undisclosed location in Baghdad to await the arrival of buses for transport to Karkuk. Dr. Chopra expects to be joined by heads of state and tens of thousands of people from around the world shortly. Once the threat of bombing subsided, he said the same peace contingent could turn its attention to solicting Iraqi participation for Dr. Chopra's SynchoDestiny Seminar or the ever popular Golf for Enlightenment series.