http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iraq/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Middle East , Iraq en-us Sun, 19 May 2013 12:33:26 +0000 Sun, 19 May 2013 12:33:26 +0000 By David J. Jenkins USU class of 3998December 20 2004 Hello everyone. Greetings from Baghdad . . .Ramadan was coming to a close and we were entering the last three days.These are known as the days of power. Command issued a warning and recommended that all soldiers wear all their protective gear even while conducting routine business around the patrol base.These commands to gear up aren http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iraq/East/Baghdad/blog-777778.html Letter No. 4 The driver rushed the cordon and . . . 39Blat Blat39 I fired twiceBy David J. Jenkins USU class of 3998December 20 2004 Hello everyone. Greetings from Baghdad . . .Well as I was just telling someone in a personal email it is always calm before the storm. I have been hesitant to send this message out as it has been a tumultuous week.Our platoon was assigned to a c http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iraq/East/Baghdad/blog-777777.html Letter No. 2 Your call cannot be completed . . . because the telephone building burned downBy David J. Jenkins USU class of 3998December 8 2004 Hello everyone. Greetings from Baghdad . . .I emerged from the house early one morning about 0400. I was going to the phone center to make a call and as I exited the building I looked up to see a huge plume of white smoke rising into the air http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iraq/East/Baghdad/blog-777775.html Originally posted December 2 2004 An Aggie39s letter from Iraq Homemade bombs at 0dark30lttable stylecolor 000000 fontfamily Times width100 border0 cellspacing0 cellpadding0gtlttbodygtlttrgtlttd width72gtlttdgtlttd classmainTEXT width28gtEditor39s Note David J. 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The Middle East bestows the most hospitable of welcomes on visitors and since I never met or saw any other foreign tourist during my ten days in the Kurdish region of Iraq it meant that all latent ho http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iraq/North/Arbil/blog-774052.html Images of charred remains bloodied bodies and wailing survivors filled my television screen. BBC World was reporting yet another bombing in Kirkuk. I looked down at my computer screen where the payment page for my flight to Erbil in the Kurdish Region of Iraq was displayed. Erbil is a mere 100 kilometres from Kirkuk. I glanced again at the violent images on the screen Damn it were the onl http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iraq/North/Arbil/blog-772597.html lttable stylecolor 000000 fontfamily Times width100 border0 cellspacing2 cellpadding2gtlttbodygtlttrgtlttd classmainTEXT width40gtJanuary 31 2005 Hello everyone Greetings from Baghdad . . .It was a dark and eerie night. . . . 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