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(01-19-2015 04:46 PM)Aliblahba Wrote:  I used to run down Route Irish in Baghdad frequently to make booze runs at the airport. Always in a soft-skinned vehicle, sometimes armed, sometimes not.






Good times.

I did that - in 2003 and 2004. The duty free stopped selling booze when the Iraqi government took it over.

It was dumb, wasn't it? I stopped after I saw a burned out vehicle on the fly-over. I also know an Army girl who got shot in the arm on that road coming back from the hairdressers at Camp Victory, March 2004. A Romanian who was with them got killed, another seriously wounded. A drive by shooting with AKs. One time in 2005 I got chased by a car with guys with AKs in it on that road. I had a PSD though, we just jetted away.

I was on Route Irish a couple of months ago, it's much improved despite ISIS/Daash being 30 km away.