The first entry in my notebook is from the 22nd of March. We still had electiricity intermitently and I was able to post these two entries online before we totally lost all electircity and internet access.
The original post can be found HERE. I won’t be re-posting, I’ll only refer to the old posts if I had something to add.
I can’t find those photos, but the video below shows how it would have looked liked when these black oil filled trenches were set on fire. We thought this was going to last much longer and were worried the heavy black smoke would stay in the air for days. If I remember correctly they were only lit for a couple of days then they ran out of oil and no one came to fill the trenches again. The Iraqi army in Baghdad would have dissolved into thin air by then
[wordpress wouldn’t let me embed the video, click on image to go to Dailymotion for full vid]
March 26, 2009 at 4:41 am |
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