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Football coaches in Iraq: travel experience

Here's a travel experience reserved for celebrities visiting troops in Iraq. It includes flying into Baghdad on a plane with no lights, getting escorted into war zones, staying in Saddam Hussein's former palaces, and heat:

"It's unbelievable," he said. "We were in a chopper that had its windows open. We got in the helicopter where the hot air poured in on you and it felt like it was 140 degrees. It was hot. Because of the sandstorms we've had some sand cover, so the sun is not always beating right down on us."

Posted by James Trotta at July 4, 2009 9:24 AM