Baghdad Archive

RPG


“RPG!!!” was the first thing I heard. The three staccato letters emanated in a flurry of excitement and confusion from my turret gunner. The rocket had sailed about three feet over the top of our HMMWV, actually coming closer to his head than the truck. It benignly exploded in mid-air on the other [...]

Baghdad is the Man


And I thought my first trip to Baghdad was cosmopolitan! I am writing this from the internet cafe in the American Embassy in Baghdad. One of my Marines and I have some business to take care of here, so we have been “stuck” here for a few days. It’s quite a dreadful predicament. Besides having [...]

Al Faw Palace and Aussie Football


Baghdad is quite an interesting place. The base is actually comprised of several sub-camps named Slayer, Victory, Liberty, etc. I never thought living conditions in Iraq could get much better than Camp Fallujah, but Baghdad has us beat hands down. All you haters can direct your aggression at them, because they are [...]

The Perfume Palace, Baghdad


[This is transcribed from notes I jotted down on my recent trip to Baghdad. The verb tense makes sense when read in that context]

The Perfume Palace was a brothel for Uday and Husay Hussein, causing it to always smell of the perfume of their concubines.

I just arrived in Baghdad for a conference and I [...]