Iraq Adventure Page

Information in Packets for VOX members in Iraq
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Arsal Timson's Information

Street Map of Baghdad with Green Zone

Overview map of Iraq: Baghdad area

Iraq: Detail

Fallujah Map: Overview

Ar Rutbah: Satellite Photo

Historical Map of Baghdad: Inset

Sheikh Ja'Fer Tomb Inscription

Paper Found by Tomb

ISHTAR decodes Arabic cipher

Helpful Web Sites

Arsal Timson's Information
1. Travel Arrangements
You have first class tickets held in the name of one of our cover companies, Alpha Ltd, from Baltimore, MD to Damascus in the Syrian Arab Republic via Newark and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. That cover will take you only to Damascus. Once there, you will assume the roles of freelance US journalists and will travel in an US government plane with diplomats and other US government representatives to Baghdad. With these arrangements, we have upheld our end of the bargain to keep you safe until you reach Baghdad. Once there, you are on your own.

2. Security Arrangements
Up until you arrive in Baghdad airspace, your safety will be the responsibility of the United States government and they will protect you as if you were their own. Any maps or other data you require will be given you, if not included in this packet. If and when you reach Baghdad safely, their (and our) responsibility ends. No person, no matter what nationality or profession, is safe in Iraq due to certain parties' extreme measures and frequent upheaval. Should any member of your team fall afoul of any of these parties and be injured, or should the worst happen, you may only apply for aid from Iraqi police, US soldiers, or UN peacekeepers in accordance with your cover as journalists. No special aid will be afforded you, and should you reveal your real identities or appeal to the US Embassy or any other branch of the United States government, all knowledge of your presence, work, or physical situation in Iraq will be denied. Please sign at the base of this document to show you understand your situation.

3. Artifacts
The following is a list of artifacts that the United States government and the International Cooperative for Preservation of Artistic Endeavours is most interested in finding and preserving, in the interests of peace and collaboration between Iraq, the peacekeepers hard at work in its cities, and its neighbors worldwide. While many artifacts have been recovered, just as many have been looted or lost, and even stolen from their sites around the world. Find as many as you can and bring them safely back to the United States to be delivered to Cooperative representative Arsal Timson.