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Baghdad

Dec. 11, 2009

Baghdad Legal: Outside the Wire

Adam Siegler of the Siegler Law Group continues his chronicle of journeying to Baghdad, Iraq as a member of the 11th Military Police Brigade.

By Adam Siegler

Coming from Beverly Hills, the first thing you notice about Baghdad is the lack of valet parking. There's plenty of traffic: up-armored HMMWVs, enormous armored trucks carrying 70 ton tanks on flatbed trailers, mine-resistant armored cars called "MRAPs," and combat vehicles of every type, all covered with dust, rattling and fuming in clouds of diesel, and bristling with weapons and antennas. Every time we went "outside the wire" - that is, outside th...

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