Ok so here I am standing in front of the building I was staying in Which also happened to be Saddam's Intelligence Ministry, you knwo the one where people were tortured, raped, and probably died a horrible and unspeakable death. There is a mini prison on the compound used to house political disidents. This isn't a country club like Gitmo, this is serious shit where people were truely tortured for false confessions and used for sport and then killed. Ok, ok.... Enough of the soapbox I'm really trying to watch it so back to the building, you can see it was damaged pretty badly during the ass whooping the Iraqis got in the opening days of the war. This is also the building that took three mortor rounds while I was living in it. That sounds worse than it is, we were not in any immediate danger from the mortars. This location is in the heart of the stink there in Baghdad, less than 10 kilometers from Al Sadr and his militia boys. They like to hope over every now and again and shoot off Iranian supplied mortars and rockets and then hide amoungst woman and children. Who says chivilary is dead!! Anyway I stayed at this location for about three weeks working on equipment that is destined for locations far from baghdad. They will be helping the Iraqis control there borders and perhaps catch some munitions coming in to take out our boys. The systems I have been working on have found some interesting things, including munitions, gold and money....oh and people. I guess smuggling people never goes out of style. They stuff the human body into some interesting places! Anyway not much time here so I will end it before the soapbox comes back out! Well here is pic for all you who wanted to see me alive and healthy if not hot as hell!