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Inside Iraq Blog - Times Online - WBLG - Aug 15, 2008
The tell-tale signs of being a Brit in Iraq are rarely more apparent than when embedded with American soldiers. Phrases such as: “Please may I borrow your torch?” or: “Where’s the loo?” draw puzzled expressions on US …
Also tagged: culture, streetlife
Inside Iraq Blog - Times Online - WBLG - Aug 5, 2008
A university student in Basra, Eman Ali said her life was hell during the past few years when gangs of militiamen ruled her city, forcing everyone to obey a set of strict religious codes. She, like most people in this …
Also tagged: politics, religion, insurgency, streetlife
Inside Iraq Blog - Times Online - WBLG - Jul 22, 2008
Covering the visit of Barack Obama to Iraq was never going to be easy. Media access was so carefully controlled that a TV crew was apparently told not to film a stand-up shot in front of a couple of Humvees outside the …
Inside Iraq Blog - Times Online - WBLG - Jul 20, 2008
It is just before midday and swelteringly hot in Baghdad. I am standing outside the blast walls that surround the British Embassy, out of breath and dripping in sweat, having spent the morning chasing around the Green …
Also tagged: politics, insurgency, streetlife
Inside Iraq Blog - Times Online - WBLG - Jun 18, 2008
The Iraqi interpreter tugged urgently at my sleeve as I was watching a group of British soldiers train Iraqi recruits at a base in southern Iraq. “Please, can you help us?” he asked. I looked at him, puzzled. He …
Also tagged: politics, insurgency
Inside Iraq Blog - Times Online - WBLG - Jun 13, 2008
Face creased with concern, the former Iraqi interpreter sits on a cheap-looking sofa in a rented flat in Amman as his two young children play on the floor and his pregnant wife rests in the bedroom. “We are worried …
Also tagged: politics, insurgency, streetlife
Inside Iraq Blog - Times Online - WBLG - Jun 10, 2008
BLUF: Complex attack IVO PB ECP: SVBIED, SAF, and IDF. BDA: 1x CF(US) WIA, 2x IA KIA, 2x LN INJ, 2x AQI/ISI Killed, 1x CHU FUBAR. POO: Sadr City. Military acronyms sound like an unfathomable foreign language to …
Also tagged: politics, insurgency
Inside Iraq Blog - Times Online - WBLG - Jun 5, 2008
In an instant, 18 mounds of professionally buried explosives blew apart a revered golden dome in Samarra. They also obliterated the walls, covered in hand-painted porcelain tiles, that surround the shrine and took out …
Also tagged: politics, history, religion, culture, insurgency, streetlife
Inside Iraq Blog - Times Online - WBLG - Jun 3, 2008
I was outnumbered 20 to one in what has been called the most dangerous city in Iraq. Terrified and isolated in a small wooden hut on the top of a patrol base in Samarra, I grabbed the only weapon to hand, a flip-flop …
Also tagged: insurgency, streetlife
Inside Iraq Blog - Times Online - WBLG - May 22, 2008
For an embed set up to investigate a new breed of Iraqi female guard it was a complete disaster. But fortunately, thanks to an amusing helicopter crew and some friendly soldiers on the ground, the trip was not an utter …
Also tagged: culture, insurgency, streetlife