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About 110 down the airport road in Baghdad in one of Sadam's S-class


armored Mercedes. For clarity, we were leaving my clients facility at Sadam's private air terminal at the edge of the airport and headed to the US military base just down the road form the airport. While driving down the access road at normal speed we saw a cardboard box sitting at the edge of the road about 100 yards ahead of us. This was 2004 so things were still very sketchy and IED's were on everyones mind. After pausing in the road to discuss, we figured that the military routinely patrolled this road and that there was no way it was an IED. But to be safe I floored it to be able to pass the box at the highest speed possible (like that would have done any good). The car weighed about 8 or 9 thousand pounds but I was going about 110 when we blew by the box.

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Posted: 05/07/2020 at 10:45AM



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