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00:00Broadcasting from an undisclosed location, Freedom Radio on 107.7 FM, Baghdad.
00:10Hi all. In brief, for those of you who don't already know, I quit the job at the law firm
00:19and I'm now working for a private security company in Iraq. I'm on a six-on, three-off
00:24rotation. Six weeks on, three weeks off. The contract is huge. 200 men doing close
00:29protection tasks or PSD as the Americans call it. There are swarms of other firms of private
00:35contractors all over the place. Some complete cowboy outfits. But this one is fairly sharp
00:40so I'm not too worried about getting killed. Besides, I've promised Debbie, Jill, Alice
00:45and Natasha that I'll come back alive. I'm currently tasked at a Baghdad office working
00:51out of a villa in the Green Zone. The Green Zone is what they call this area in the middle
00:56of the city surrounding Saddam's old presidential palaces and it's where the CPA, sorry, that's
01:01the Coalition Provisional Authority, has set up shop. It's a massively fortified perimeter
01:07the size of a small town protected by thousands of American troops. The city on the whole
01:13is in ruins but it doesn't seem all that dangerous right now.
01:43Available now on iTunes.
02:13Available now on iTunes.