Posted on 11/30/2003 10:17:25 PM PST by doug from upland
The president of SSAF, my friend Nick Ashton, finally was able to communicate to me from safety in England. He had taken an armed convoy out of Baghdad to Amman, Jordan and then a flight to England.
Nick told me that he originally flew in to Baghdad airport with 7 of the foreigners who have been killed recently in Iraq. He met just days ago with two of the Japanese who were murdered by terrorists. It really shook him up and made it very personal for him.
Nick had a meeting with FReeper ChiefKujo who gave us the great news about the presidential visit to Iraq. He was really impressed with the chief.
One of Nick's recommendations for those doing business in Baghdad is to ditch the SUVs. They have become targets of the bad guys. It is far better to use vehicles that will better blend in. One of the tricks the bad buys use is for kids to put an Arabic mark on a westerner's car, writing it on the back in the dust on the car. When a terrorist sees that, he knows he has a westerner as a target. They constantly were washing their cars and changing cars because they were being followed.
Some of the work done by SSAF has already saved lives in Baghdad.
For those of you who haven't read my posts before, this is what I do --- SSAF.
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