Dateline Baghdad: Assignment to Iraq

OBFUSCATE, OBFUSCATE, OBFUSCATE

I'm still in regular contact with the people I met in Baghdad during my assignment there last year. Friendships forged under such intense conditio... weiterlesen
10.1.05 13:18


KENNETH BIGLEY: AN ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN?

By nature, I'm pretty relaxed when it comes to risk. After evaluating the options, provided I feel the upside warrants it, I'll put myself in... weiterlesen
28.9.04 15:54


CLOSE PROTECTION? THE SHADOWY WORLD OF PRIVATE MILITARY COMPANIES

They travel in armoured SUVs, ostentatiously carrying powerful weapons - assault rifles, sidearms, grenades - and they shoot and arrest peopl... weiterlesen
23.4.04 10:28


IRAQ FOR THE IRAQIS

I've been doing a lot of soul searching since I returned from Baghdad, in part trying to derive an element of order from the sensory ove... weiterlesen
20.4.04 12:51


PARTING SHOT

If a week is a long time in politics, it's a lifetime in Baghdad. After a nightmarish journey butressed by hell at one end and heaven at the ... weiterlesen
13.4.04 12:38


LOCKDOWN

What a difference 24 hours makes. Tanks and Bradleys on the streets of the green zone, and anyone with a weapon is carrying it locked and lo... weiterlesen
8.4.04 13:19


STREET LIFE

The picture above was taken on my last excursion into the Red Zone in company with the British Army. SOP here is for armed soldiers... weiterlesen
6.4.04 14:33


SALAAM

Life in Baghdad continues apace, despite the rise in tensions across the country although I'm learning to take the disruption all i... weiterlesen
5.4.04 12:29


MARHABAH

Went out with the Paras today, army style - which meant I could again dispense with my CP team, riding instead in a low-profile convoy of civ... weiterlesen
1.4.04 15:02


POVERTY

Back into the red zone today where having shaken off my CP team, I wandered over to a city of cardboard and corrugated iron shelters built on... weiterlesen
31.3.04 15:33


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