Intrepid war correspondent JD Johannes is making his way all over Iraq and now is near the border w/ Iran. In the 1980s Iran and Iraq fought to a bloody stalemate on a thin strip of desert over access to a waterway, the Shatt al Arab, that had been in dispute since the days of the Ottoman Empire. The war was a pure fire-power battle resembling the trench warfare of World War I and the set piece charges of the American Civil War. The tension over the Iran/Iraq border still lingers making border security one of the key missions of US Forces in Iraq. I spent a day at the Shalamcha Port of Entry, a bustling entry point for Iranian tourists and transhipment point east of Basrah, Iraq.
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Jul 16 2010, 03:09 AM
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