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• Kathleen getting blood drawn in Amman.
• We have to take an AIDS test in order to enter Iraq. The practice dates back to the days of Saddam.
• Iraqi Refugees at the Iraqi Embassy in Amman, Jordan looking for their passport numbers on the wall - a sign they're approved to go home.
• Our labeled blood test vials.
• The Baghdad Airport, during the infamous corkscrew landing.
• Kathleen, Pierre (and Rick flashing rabbit ears) on plane to Baghdad.
• The plane flies until it is between 20 and 30 thousand feet above Baghdad...
• Arrived at BIAP with all our gear.
• Fox's security detail picks us up at the airport and put us in our body armor before hitting the Airport Road.
• We were stuck at the press office in the Green Zone for 25 hours, while waiting for our flight to al Asad.
• The lights never went out.
• Murals on blast walls along the Airport Road.
• Our photographer Pierre smiles as he gets his test.
• Kathleen & Rick (in body armor) at the Crossed Swords Parade Ground, Baghdad.
• Finally on the C-130 to al Asad.
• On a C-130.
• The Syrian Border Crossing at Husaybah, Iraq.
• Rick and Col. Clardy.
• Pierre and Kathleen at the Syrian border.
• The location of this photo is a secret for now.
• Eating Pringles in the Humvee.
• Kathleen's new best friends.
• Kathleen is ambushed by little kids.
• A billboard advertising the Iraqi Army.
• Rick interviews a Marine who was grazed by a bullet: "The brass kissed his neck."
• Rick interviews an "Am-tracer" in Alus, Iraq.
• Kathleen, filthy, in Alus, Iraq.
• Pierre edits in our workspace in FOB Hit.
• Our "cans" at al Asad, protected by a blast wall.
• Rick wonders what happened to his suite!
• Cpt. Armistead at Abraham's Oasis.