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Everybody wants to know about camel spiders here in Iraq, especially after that infamous picture went around with the two huge looking ones…

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It's been cool and overcast today (all day, for the first time since I've been here). It rained some this evening, and the rainy season is…

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Not much new to report this week. Temperatures are getting more and more tolerable here, and in the morning it's actually getting cold…

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I've been here almost a month now, which has flown by very quickly, it seems. I can hardly believe October is more than half over! It's…

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We got our first clouds a few days ago, and today was the first real rain showers I've seen since I've been in Iraq. There was some…

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