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Eddie Mair | 10:42 UK time, Friday, 14 March 2008

Hugh heard from US soldiers in Iraq.

He writes: "I have been on several embeds here, shamelessly using Humvees as taxis - to get me to reconstruction projects and to polling stations for the referendum and the two assembly elections in 2005. These are some of the people I met:

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Top cover for an Iraq Police station in New Baghdad


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Passengers on the Marne Express - a helicopter shuttle service across Baghdad.


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One of the helicopter pilots with his mascot.


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D-Fac. Dining Facility. Remarkably good food - substantial hot meals, omeletttes to order, and unlimited Baskin Robbins ice cream.


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Here is a soldier's quarters at a US base.

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Enjoying the Superbowl live on the big screen in a former Ba'ath Party auditorium in the Green Zone, Baghdad.


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Howard and Mike.


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Quiet times at Camp Rustamiya.


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Anyone hungry? Sgt. Mike Brinton returns from kebab shopping in Karada, Baghdad. After a suicide bomb attack, Mike told me: "I feel remorse. This is only happening because we're here"

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Kebab picnic near the Tigris. On the left, Col. Brian Dosa: ""I love it here, the people give me energy".

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"You'll have to forgive a bit of cavalry swagger, Hugh"


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On the way home: military contractors in a Hercules C130.


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Hercules crewman gets some rest."

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