Some “differently-abled” Soviet-made tanks, now half-buried in a sand berm inside Camp Slayer
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Tanks a lot
Posted on September 18, 2005 by lewisshepherd
Not good
Posted on September 17, 2005 by lewisshepherd
More bad stuff today… I’m lucky, because I haven’t had to go outside the wall except for my first two days here. Nevertheless, one guy here on base was killed the day I left the US (Sept 11) by a mortar attack over the wall, and another on Sept 7. This is a car bomb near the airport.
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Fisher of men
Posted on September 15, 2005 by lewisshepherd
Pete Fisher of MNC-I, Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence under Gen Zahner
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Where’s Waldo
Posted on September 14, 2005 by lewisshepherd
Flying over the Turkey/Northern Iraq border…funny thing how these bad guys are able to hide so easily
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Photos of Iraq Trip
Posted on September 12, 2005 by lewisshepherd
So I got unexpectedly called to Baghdad for a particularly fun trip with Mike Pflueger (my boss and our Deputy Director). September 11 (fourth anniversary) may not be the best time to leave by plane, for Iraq no less, but…
See all the photos here (start at the bottom of the page and work up, I posted them chronologically with comments).
Traveled with Pflueger and Jason Stahl, one of our senior communications specialists – Jason and I will stay in country after Pflueger leaves. Turns out Jason has done this kind of “specialized install” numerous times before – many odd places around the world. Nice guy… he had just saved up and bought a new gadget for the trip — new Sony PSP.
On the British Airways flight from London to Bahrain and then Qatar, I read the papers I’d bought at Heathrow – England’s Daily Telegraph and Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune, and the Wall Street Journal Euro edition. Then, I fell asleep – woke up and discovered on the seat-back real-time map display that we had just passed over Istanbul and the Turkish Black Sea coast and were heading for Syria and northern Iraq. I looked out over the west of Iran, which I could make out on the horizon.
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Shepherd's Pi 