Into Iraq: step-by-step

Thomas F. Unke wrote in message
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(Miguel Cruz) writes:

Respect!


With respect, can you prove you're posting from Iraq?

Surreyman (from Al Qaida HQ, Nuristan)

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 13:50:33 GMT, (Miguel Cruz) wrote:

Markku Grönroos wrote:
I wonder where he finds all that money required to be mobile all the time.

My travel is funded entirely by the savings I reap using ATMs instead of
travelers checks.

Ingenious, I'm going to start funding travel by savings between 2* and
3* hotels!

Jim.

a.spencer3 wrote:
With respect, can you prove you're posting from Iraq?

Interesting question. As a natural-born skeptic, I'm not sure what would
constitute convincing proof. I don't have a passport stamp because the
Kurdish border people give you a separate piece of paper instead. I have put
some photos on my web site (see http://travel.u.nu/country-iq.php) but I
guess someone else could have taken them. My posting headers are unhelpful
since I always connect back to my home network in DC to read news. The
internet access here is all through satellite services; I always get a
*.direcpceu.com address, so even if I posted via Google that would not prove
much.

Do you have any ideas? I'm game as long as it doesn't involving appearing as
a corpse on CNN.

miguel
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On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 14:45:06 GMT, (Miguel Cruz) wrote:

Do you have any ideas? I'm game as long as it doesn't involving appearing as
a corpse on CNN.

Get yourself kidnapped and have the kidnappers send a body part?

We'll need to dna match it later of course, and it needs to be done
quickly so you've not got time to DHL your own Ear to Iraq first.

HTH.

Jim.

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 14:45:06 GMT, the renowned (Miguel
Cruz) wrote:

a.spencer3 wrote:
With respect, can you prove you're posting from Iraq?

Interesting question. As a natural-born skeptic, I'm not sure what would
constitute convincing proof. I don't have a passport stamp because the
Kurdish border people give you a separate piece of paper instead. I have put
some photos on my web site (see http://travel.u.nu/country-iq.php) but I
guess someone else could have taken them. My posting headers are unhelpful
since I always connect back to my home network in DC to read news. The
internet access here is all through satellite services; I always get a
*.direcpceu.com address, so even if I posted via Google that would not prove
much.

Do you have any ideas? I'm game as long as it doesn't involving appearing as
a corpse on CNN.

miguel

I'd be satisfied if you sent me a worthless stack of banknotes with
Saddam's face on it. ;-) In fact I'd pay you for it.


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Spehro Pefhany wrote:
(Miguel Cruz) wrote:
Do you have any ideas? I'm game as long as it doesn't involving appearing as
a corpse on CNN.

I'd be satisfied if you sent me a worthless stack of banknotes with
Saddam's face on it. ;-) In fact I'd pay you for it.

I've been trying to find those myself. People seem to have been pretty
thorough about turning them in or burning them. In the meantime, I do have a
lot of near-worthless banknotes with waterfalls and factories on them...

miguel
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On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 13:50:33 GMT, (Miguel Cruz) wrote:

Markku Grönroos wrote:
I wonder where he finds all that money required to be mobile all the
time.

My travel is funded entirely by the savings I reap using ATMs instead of
travelers checks.

Ingenious, I'm going to start funding travel by savings between 2* and
3* hotels!
Jim.
But with tax-free buy-ups you can probably save enough to upgrade from 3* to
4*

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 07:37:18 +0000, Miguel Cruz wrote:

Alfred Molon wrote:
Can't believe you are in Iraq, Miguel. Aren't you afraid that somebody
might shoot you ?

From what I've heard there aren't many people hanging around taking random
potshots; the attacks so far have most been planned in advance and against
conspicuous and predictable targets. Plus, I only have enough time to be in
the north which ranges from completely safe to moderately risky. No time for
Baghdad! So I'll live to annoy the newsgroup another day...

miguel

Just keep away frm Americans that arrest you and send you to Guantanamo
Bay and then tell you they have a photo of you with Osama Bin Laden.

I think I'm joking, but after reading today's account of their ordeal by
the Britons who were just released I'm not so sure.

J;

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"Miguel Cruz" wrote in message
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I wonder where he finds all that money required to be mobile all the
time.

My travel is funded entirely by the savings I reap using ATMs instead of
travelers checks.

Hah! In Northern Iraq the legal tender is cakes of horse and camel
excrement. Cambodia got her first set of escalators a couple of years ago in
a shopping mall (there were hired personnel to guide people on the use of
this devil's gadget). I wonder when the first ATM is operational in Mosul..

Go Fig wrote:

Do you think anyone will visit Guantanamo in 50 years, unlike the DEATH
camp of Dachau, that 1000s of people visit each year.

Now that's really a disgusting comparison.
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