Mosul & Nineveh – keys to the city
Little over 10 years ago, a good friend of mine was deployed to Iraq as an MP in the Army
As part of his tasking, they were training Iraqi police forces to handle day-to-day keeping-of-the-peace after the eventual departure of the US military
My friend became very good friends with the local chief of police – who happened to, literally, have the keys to Nineveh. So, on a quiet day after some training exercises completed, he and a handful of his group got a personalized walking tour of Nineveh!
Snapped loads of great photos of extant Assyrian and Babylonian artifacts that hadn't yet been properly excavated and documented (because despot Saddam disallowed archaeological activity that didn't support his regime).
About the only time I ever wanted to be in a warzone in my life
Submitted September 23, 2019 at 11:25AM
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