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OH! WHAT A LO; VELY HOLY; WAR
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THEY USED to take us to the war in a Hercules C130, barrelling
through the night down to Ahwaz or Dezful, we passengers sitting in
our bucket seats, sweating, notebooks and cameras on our laps,
praying that the Iraqi air force didn't sniff the engine exhausts
in the dank night. We'd fly into the desert air base at dawn, see
the oil fires burning, hear that heavy rumbling of the Somme-like
guns, and fear for the next 36 hours - a night in an underground
bunker with the dust rising from the fl...
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