{"id":473,"date":"2009-09-24T01:21:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T08:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/?p=473"},"modified":"2009-09-24T01:30:11","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T08:30:11","slug":"back-to-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/?p=473","title":{"rendered":"Back to Iraq???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-478\" title=\"Picture 1\" src=\"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Picture-12.png\" alt=\"Picture 1\" width=\"422\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Picture-12.png 1004w, https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Picture-12-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Picture-12-768x423.png 768w, https:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Picture-12-120x67.png 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/>Adana, Turkey-<\/strong> I&#8217;m in another utterly random hotel in an utterly random city along Turkey&#8217;s Mediterranean coast en route to northern Iraq. About to get on yet another all day bus ride and plan to cross into Iraq tomorrow. Have no idea what to expect or who I&#8217;ll meet, but that&#8217;s the best part of this whole deal, isn&#8217;t it? Don&#8217;t have any contacts in Kurdistan either and do not have a handle on what all the costs are but I&#8217;ll wing it as usual. I&#8217;ve read that the intercity taxis are the costliest part of the whole deal. Will Turkey attack while I&#8217;m there? I&#8217;ll soon find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adana, Turkey- I&#8217;m in another utterly random hotel in an utterly random city along Turkey&#8217;s Mediterranean coast en route to northern Iraq. About to get on yet another all day bus ride and plan to cross into Iraq tomorrow. 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