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20:52 - Now arriving at Gate 74...
http://nytimes.com/slideshow/2003/04/04/international/04cnd-airport.slideshow_1.html
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This slideshow, at the NY Times site, is absolutely worth your time. It's a series of really great photos of the US troops taking over Saddam International Airport.
"Surreal", said Judith, who posted this at The Command Post. Damned straight, if you've ever been in an airport before.
Looks like an awfully nice airport, incidentally. Iraq may well turn out to be a premier tourist destination once this is all over. I know I'd love to see it up close-- Ur, and Babylon, and Nineveh, and everything else. Just looking at the bas-relief work on the terminal walls, it looks like an exceptionally well-appointed facility.
This must have been terribly unnerving for the troops, though-- having the photographer in front of them, walking backwards, snapping pictures as they secured the unknown parts of the airport. Does that mean the photographer was on point? (Or were these posed?)
Yes, yes-- I know these weren't posed. I was being facetious... that is, full of faceces.
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