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A Bodyguard in Baghdad (and Other Places)

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To prepare for our trip to Iraq to protect those engineers assisting in the reconstruction-efforts, we had to brush-up on our driving-skills on a disused airfield in England. This included, among other things, Y-turns, J-turns, formation-driving (eg. swapping positions while in a 5 vehicle H-formation at speed - with an inch of space between each) as well as hefty helpings of vehicle-rammings:

A reverse-ram in action

From England it was an overnight-flight to Kuwait and a few hours later a hitched-lift on a British C130 Hercules into Baghdad:

Some of the lads during the G-forces of a C130 operational-descent

A few of the essentials in Baghdad - pizza, water, body-armour with ceramic plates - and AK47:

The basics

We're living in pretty luxurious conditions - here's the view from the top of our villa (apparently it belongs to one of Saddam's old generals):

The view up-top

Something one doesn't see every day - the base of the famous crossed-swords, Saddam's old parade-ground. The helmets shown are Iranian, war-trophies from the Iran-Iraq war; they're also used as road-bumps between the bases of the crossed-swords:

Swords and helmets

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