[PoisedWoman]

Donny George is hardly an Iraqi name. Where did they get him?

[aristeides]

"Instability is a green light for anyone interested in antiquities," says Donny George, an urbane Assyrian Christian who runs the research department at Iraq's National Museum in Baghdad.

http://www.casi.org.uk/discuss/2001/msg00691.html.

Later on in that link:

Archaeology is held in high esteem in Iraq. Saddam Hussein sends Donny George his reports back with careful notes in the margin. Iraq's president has rebuilt Babylon, to the fury of Unesco and other international cultural organisations, and has had his name inscribed on a plaque next to Nebuchadnezzar's.

[Rastus]

Donny George is hardly an Iraqi name. Where did they get him?

Wasn't he a New Kid on the Block?

Maybe his real name is Iraqi, but he picked up this pseudonym like Baghdad Bob did.

[mass55th]

Donny George is hardly an Iraqi name. Where did they get him?

I believe the name George is Middle Eastern. I used to work with a guy who had that last name and he was of Middle Eastern descent...possibly Lebanese.