A Muslim soldier’s story of sun, sex and bomb disposal in the Iraq war
n February 24th 2003, I flew off to the Iraq war on an aeroplane full of porn. We had got on board atBrize Norton in Oxfordshire. It was much like a normal flight – there were boarding passes and passports and weight restrictions on our luggage – except that, halfway through, we were told that as our destination was Kuwait, a Muslim country, porn mags were forbidden. This was like asking soldiers to give up their rifles.
We landed in Kuwait and were bussed to enormous hangars next to the airport, where we waited for our vehicles to arrive. Compared with the Americans, we were under-equipped and ill-prepared. Our camouflage was designed for the verdant English countryside. There wasn’t enough body armour to go round. When our Land Rovers showed up, they were still green. Someone found a carwash, filled it up with sand-coloured paint and hosed them up and down.
But the Americans also seemed committed and purposeful. They genuinely believed in service. Just before we invaded, we lined up with hundreds of American troops while a general walked up and down the ranks, asking each soldier his name, asking who was waiting for him back home and exhorting him to fuck these people up so we could all get out.n the night of March 21st 2003, we crossed the border at Umm Qasr. We drove through the night without our lights on.
Soldiers from the Black Watch regiment went out straight away, kicking down doors and shaking people up. The next day out on patrol, time seemed to slow down agonisingly. People grew fidgety. Lots of us had never been shot at before, let alone had a friend who was missing in action. Some began to check in on their comrades. “If they come for us, are you going to shoot at them?” one soldier asked me. When we got back to base, the disappearances were all we talked about.
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