's have been barred from using the road, and are flown to and from the airport on helicopter gunships, a 10-minute roof-skimming journey to the Green Zone. But it took Italy's fury over the shooting of one of the country's top intelligence agents earlier this year for the American military command to acknowledge publicly that driving the airport road is a form of Russian roulette. ... whipping the Nissan till it is nudging 140kmh as we enter Route Irish - the most dangerous stretch of highway on earth. Jack Fortune, Actor: Cardiac Arrest. The 1st Battalion of the 69th was assigned to patrol "Route Irish" on Feb. 12, 2005. "It's way beyond it. Daniel Staniewicz of Orlando, Fla., who commanded one recent Third Infantry patrol, speaking of Iraqi-driven vehicles. Amar's stress levels were right up. On May 9, 2005, a supply convoy left the U.S. military air base at Al Asad, Iraq. In the past year, American and British diplomats and visiting V.I.P. The 2nd Brigade Combat Team undertook combat operations in western Baghdad, an area of responsibility which included Abu Ghraib, Mansour, and But even these figures may understate the threat. The fact that soldiers and commanders, and not only journalists, described the road the car was travelling down, "Route Irish", as the "deadliest road in Iraq". The ambush ended with the death of all the contractors. I asked him about Route Irish and where it sat in terms of "the edge" in his existence. It was a coolish morning, but the perspiration was pouring from him and he made a poor job of pretending he was not worried about having to get back into the car for the return journey to the city. An American officer, who knew her, arrived in time to help bundle her into an ambulance. Her car was engulfed in flames, burning it back to raw metal. In minutes, a white sport utility vehicle with tinted windows drove down the side road, made a U-turn, then lowered its windows. June 8, 2005 — 10.00am. Reactions: Deamos, Passport1, wolfox03SS and 2 others. When American troops captured Baghdad, these districts became insurgent hide-outs. Ahmelman, 34, was a trained sniper who had bailed out of the Australian Army after 10 years of service, apparently disgruntled by the treatment of his battalion while serving in Somalia. March 9, 2005 'Route Irish Racing' & Roadblocks By Austin Bay. "There are so many vee-bids," he said. Nicola Calipari (June 23, 1953 – March 4, 2005) was an Italian major general and SISMI military intelligence officer. As an actor, he has appeared in the E4 teen drama Skins as Mr Fitch, father of twins, Katie and Emily and in the Ken Loach film Route Irish. Calipari died trying the shield Sgrena, a correspondent for Il Manifesto, from the American fire. Charred and wrecked vehicles and holes blasted in the road surface tell everyone in the car what to expect. "When moving, these VBIED's are practically impossible to identify until it is too late." Most of those killed on the road have been Iraqis, innocents caught up in attacks aimed at foreigners. A US army medic on the scene told the officer that despite burns to 90 per cent of her body, Ruzicka managed to clamber out of the car, telling him: "I'm alive." Amid bitter recrimination between Rome and Washington over what went wrong, he was given a state funeral. So feared has the route become that an American security company announced earlier this year that it would run an armored-car taxi service to the airport from the Sheraton hotel on the Tigris's east bank. Or April 16 a suicide car bomb tore down an on-ramp like that just negotiated by Amar, and exploded in the midst of a security contractors' convoy of armoured vehicles - two Mercedes-Benzes and a BMW. But with a few computer keystrokes, reporters recovered censored portions outlining the anxieties among American soldiers on March 4 when they fired on a Toyota sedan carrying Mr. Calipari and Giuliana Sgrena, an Italian journalist rescued minutes earlier from a month as an insurgent hostage. Fun times. Procedures require turret-gunners to show a clenched fist to approaching drivers, throw water bottles or spikes, and fire warning shots before aiming at drivers. NEW YORK STATE’S MILITARY ORGANIZATION NEW YORK STATE MILITARY FORCES Authorized: 21,291 Air National Guard Authorized: 10,009 Authorized: 4,000 Army National Guard NY Guard Authorized: 6,178 Authorized: 1,104 Naval Militia. Like neighborhoods across the Tigris River from Mr. Hussein's seat of power in the Republican Palace, these suburbs -- some little more than slums, others thick with palm-shaded mansions -- were populated with Hussein loyalists by design. by 'Route Irish' to Sanctuary Project Mon Jun 13, 2005 14:41 The road, which the U.S. military has dubbed “Route Irish,” is really a highway. A Different Kind Of 'Route Irish' Can Shannon Airport be Transformed into a Sanctuary for War Resisters? The S.U.V. Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps. The story behind this video has been written in the book "Mercenary Mum by Neryl Joyce". He eases the car towards the on-ramp and plants his foot, whipping the Nissan till it is nudging 140kmh as we enter Route Irish - the most dangerous stretch of highway on earth. They watched him on the mobile phone, calling in the hit men - and thought nothing of it. When the shooting came they weren't sure where it was coming from; and when it stopped three of the eight men in the three-car convoy were dead. One of the testimonials he had chosen to put on the site is revealing: "You guys are out there on the edge … and that's the place to be!". And from this grew one of the war's grim ironies. Ruzicka, too, became a hero for some Americans and others she had touched in Baghdad. American troops had blocked the road to clear away the remains of a car damaged by a bomb. Between September and November, there were no car bombs and nine IEDs. A volley of machine-gun fire killed three contractors, an American, a Canadian and an Australian. "The enemy is very skillful at inconspicuously packing large amounts of explosives into a vehicle," the report said. But just as often, the journey is an intimidating crawl lasting up to an hour, as traffic backs up behind American convoys -- or the chaos caused by the frequent attacks. The convoy was escorted by private military contractors. It could be a suicide bomber - vehicle-borne or on foot; a roadside bomb - with the explosives hidden in a discarded sack, an animal carcass or dug into the bituman by insurgents masquerading as a repair gang; a barrage of mortars or rocket-propelled grenades. But even Ahmelman was a wrong-place, wrong-time victim of happenstance - what should have been a routine run to the airport to collect two colleagues went awry when a roadside bomb up ahead brought traffic to a halt. One recent traveler, Ahmed Hashim, a 27-year-old Kurdish engineer, reached the Winged Man with relief. And a published report based on military figures cites nine improvised explosive devices along Where to look - at the traffic ahead or behind; among the tree stumps on the garbage-strewn median strip; into the housing estates to the south; or up on the overpass and ramps at each of six concrete-jungle intersections? Many in the media incorrectly associate the name 'Route Irish' with the 69th National Guard Regiment out of New York , which is descended from an American Civil War unit made up of predominantly Irish immigrants. as Frankie. Calipari assumed the status of a national hero in Italy. There is a possibility of large-scale Two years ago last month, the airport road was the last leg of the invasion route for American tanks, which set out from their first Baghdad foothold, the airport, to seize the Republican Palace. There was a SAF attack on a patrol on Route CARDINALS in Zone 33N and another on a static MNFI patrol on Route FORCE in Zone 28, one on a civilian vehicle on Route IRISH IVO VCP 1 and another on an MNFI patrol on Route HUSKIES in Zone 54. Iraqi drivers, especially those working for foreigners, prefer to race down the six-lane expressway, veering away from on-ramps and keeping to the right lane to avoid bombs buried in the median. Perhaps that's because these three came from a less noble profession and culture. His justification that he had to get out of truck driving in Australia because he might kill someone sat oddly with the fact that he'd come to Iraq to kill someone … or be killed. Cars cannot proceed beyond this point, so we sipped Turkish coffee from a flask as we waited for the next bus to the passenger terminal. These two deal with a tragic event -- actually, several tragic events -- on the airport road in Baghdad in 2005… Calipari was killed by American soldiers while escorting a recently released Italian hostage, journalist Giuliana Sgrena, to Baghdad International Airport. A survivor of that incident, James Yeager, a security contractor who was previously an undercover narcotics detective in Camden, Tenn., said in an account posted on the Internet that his security convoy was halted half a mile east of the airport by an American military unit dealing with the aftermath of a roadside bomb. Driving Route Irish almost daily in Baghdad 2005-2006. Some weave as they approach overpasses, to foil insurgents who might drop explosives from above. The Long Road Home: In September, 2005 Task Force Wolfhound began arriving home in Louisiana and New York. Now, the palace compound, renamed the Green Zone, is home to the American Embassy and the new Iraqi government, and the airport road has become a totem of how embattled America's presence in Iraq has become. John Bishop. Civilian vehicles between the convoy and the roadblock turned off to find alternative routes. At the city end is the Green Zone, the fortress-like government, military and diplomatic quarter in the heart of Baghdad. On Way to Baghdad Airport, Death Stalks Main Road, https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/29/world/middleeast/on-way-to-baghdad-airport-death-stalks-main-road.html. His statue's spreading wings mark the point at which Baghdad-bound travelers bid farewell to the secured airport area, or airport-bound ones reach its safety. Among American soldiers, assignment to airport road patrols is deeply unpopular. "I wanted to kill the terrorists, but nobody had told me the direction, description or distance," Mr. Yeager said. It was a few minutes before noon. Its path took … Some American convoys carry red-lettered signs in Arabic and English warning drivers to stay back "100 meters" or face "deadly force." She died before she got to hospital. She had enough charm to extract casualty figures the US military brass don't ordinarily divulge; and enough chutzpah to use those figures to extract more than $US20 million from Senate committees to compensate the victims' families. Amar is built like a battering ram but he drives like a ballet dancer, staying well ahead of the supply convoy coming from behind; but not daring to catch up with the one ahead. The convoy was escorted by 12 Iraqi, 4 South African and 1 Japanese private military … One report this year by a Western security company said airport road attacks had included 14 suicide car bombs in November and December last year alone, double the incidence cited by the Calipari report. Flashback: A Mysterious Death on Route Irish, Baghdad, 2005 Since the Newsweek archives are still inaccessible or lost, I will continue to post some of the pieces I have on my hard drive, just for the record. Before I went on Route Irish I made my peace with God every time. James Yeager worked as a contractor in Iraq 2004-2005; an account of his service: After weaving through the Baghdad traffic, the three cars came to a halt in gridlock on Route Irish. They killed the man on the back seat - Nicola Calipari, an Italian intelligence officer who had just pulled off the remarkable rescue of Giuliana Sgrena, who had been an insurgency hostage for a month. And while presidents and senators eulogised Calipari and the zany but well-intentioned Ruzicka, only his father, Allan Ahmelman, spoke up for the dead Australian security contractor, telling the Herald: "He was as gentle as a kitten, and hard as the hobs of hell.". Suicide bombers in cars packed with explosives lurk at on-ramps, waiting for American convoys or other targets. Take March 4. Alley," after the improvised explosive devices -- bombs -- that are lethally common on the 10 miles of expressway and city streets that make up Baghdad's airport road. Route HUSKIES, one in Zone 35 and another in Zone 54. "Route Irish" was named for the "Fighting Irish" of Notre Dame. They were hired guns, $35,000-a-month mercenaries who wanted to be in a war zone but who baulked at military discipline and accountability. by 'Route Irish' to Sanctuary Project Wednesday, Feb 9 2005 (from Indymedia- Ireland) He came to Iraq to make a quick buck working for Edinburgh Risk and Security Management. The driver of the BMW lead car in the convoy was James Yeager, a Rambo-wanabe, who runs a website (tacticalresponse.com). "I don't notice anything out of the ordinary on Route Irish," Brig. Virtually everyone is a trophy - senior military officers, busloads of Western coalition staff and their baggage wagons, lumbering supply convoys, Western businessmen or a journalist going home, and all the coalition and Iraqi military patrols sucked into an exhaustive and grinding security operation along the road. But whether the road is traveled in a patrolling Humvee, an armored car or an Iraqi family car or taxi, arriving safely is an occasion for celebration, and a sense that luck -- or benign providence -- has prevailed. But when Australian Chris Ahmelman was gunned down with two of his colleagues on Route Irish at about midday on April 20, there wasn't the same emotional outpouring - in Australia or Iraq. Najwa Nimri Celebrity Profile - Check out the latest Najwa Nimri photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at You cannot beat biology. American commanders have kept casualty tolls secret, apparently concerned for morale among American troops and other users of the road. On 20 April 2005 Edinburgh Risk personnel assigned to Operation APOLLO (support to the Independent Election Commission of Iraq) were engaged by enemy forces on Route IRISH (BIAP Road) during the execution of their duties. "The ones you worry about are the ones who don't get out of your way," said Staff Sgt. VBIED's -- soldiers say vee-bids -- is the American command's acronym for vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices. Before releasing the report on the investigation into the death of Nicola Calipari, a major general in the Italian military intelligence service, senior commanders often said the hazards on the road were exaggerated compared with other high-risk war zones across Iraq. "I have no way of knowing when my turn as a victim will come, but as a Muslim I believe that I have a destiny, so I trust in God, and leave everything to him.". Some soldiers take care not to "battle lock" Humvee doors, a procedure similar to dead-bolting that makes the doors more secure but also slower to open. BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 28 - Iraqis call it Death Street. There is at least one attack a day on Route Irish. His shaved head darts this way and that, gratefully taking in the location of the US and Iraqi patrols, but at the same time, praying that we won't get caught next to one of them if the traffic grinds to a halt. Disguised as members of a road crew, they bury daisy-chained artillery shells beneath the roadway, then trigger them with garage-door openers and cellphones. At 28 she was a one-woman non-government organisation, a hyper-active, Valley-talking Californian girl who campaigned on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq for the rights of locals who suffered as a result of US military activity. We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Gen. Mark E. O'Neill, assistant commander of the Third Infantry Division, responsible for Baghdad, said days before the Calipari report appeared. But one of the US patrols sealing Route Irish to make it Negroponte's exclusive domain opened fire on a white sedan which the soldiers said did not respond to their instructions to stop. Save. Mr. Yeager said he noticed a parked car that appeared to be an insurgent lookout -- with an Iraqi inside talking on a cellphone -- on a neighborhood road parallel to the expressway. He couldn't recognise what was left of her. Black Cr.GENESEE NIAGARA MONROE SUFFOLK The cost, one way, per person: $2,390, probably the world's most expensive airport cab ride. Many, like Iraqis, set out with prayers. Four days later, three other foreigners died in a machine-gun attack a mile closer to the airport. On a visit in February, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton noted that she had driven along the road on a previous journey, in December 2003, and cited the change as a measure of how much security in Iraq had deteriorated. Summer 2005 . To American soldiers, it is "I.E.D. The fact that there were 3,306 attacks by insurgents in Baghdad between 1 November 2004 and 12 March 2005; 2,400 of them aimed at coalition forces. Based inside the Sunni Triangle, the unit was charged with safeguarding the checkpoints along the dangerous road to Baghdad airport, which they renamed But because Route Irish is the only way in and the only way out, it's a terrorist's gift, a ready-made shooting gallery in which there are few dud ducks. Ever alert to potential assassins, the dictator, a Sunni Arab, built Sunni suburbs at strategic points around the city to shield him from attack. Please try again later. The report said there had been 135 attacks on the road in the four months up to early March, including 15 suicide car bombs, 19 roadside bombs, and 14 attacks with rocket-propelled grenades. Fourteen car bombs and 48 IEDs detonated along Route Irish between April and June 2005. On April 16, a suicide bomber careering from an on-ramp detonated amid traffic bottled up behind a Humvee convoy, incinerating Ms. Ruzicka's car and killing four people, including two Iraqis. Mar 11, 2021 #16 Make sure you know when to stop and rest or sleep. As they waited, they were sitting ducks for the insurgency "dicker" - or lookout - on a nearby slip road. Route Irish is the military code name for the expressway arcing eastward from what was once Saddam International Airport, flanked by mainly Sunni Arab … Route Irish was secure in a way it had not enjoyed since the beginning of the insurgency two years before. https://www.golfdigest.com/story/david-owen-royal-county-down Irish was the direct airport road, connecting the International Zone (aka the “Green Zone”) with BIAP and the Victory… The 2005 Hit convoy ambush was an ambush by Iraqi insurgents of a convoy that was carrying military supplies for U.S. forces. It has two directions of traffic split by a median in the middle and surrounded by parallel side roads and neighborhoods on the outside. But at least 10 Westerners have been killed since mid-April, including Marla Ruzicka, a 28-year-old volunteer from Lakeport, Calif., who had lobbied Congress for American aid to Iraqi and Afghan casualties of American military strikes. From Nov. 1, 2004, to March 12, 2005, the "attack density" was 11.25 attacks per mile-or a minimum of one attack per day along Route Irish. Nevertheless, for six months in 2005, the regiment's 1st Battalion did patrol the sector, so confusion about its naming is understandable. "Route Irish is commonly referred to as 'the deadliest road in Iraq' by journalists, soldiers and commanders," the command declared recently, in a report that underscored the stresses affecting the American platoon that fired on the Italian agent's car. In the published report, the numbers of attacks on the road were blacked out. are my attempt to reconstruct, diagram, explain, and learn from the linear ambush initiated against a Private Security Detail (PSD) working for Edinburgh Risk and Security Management (ERSM) and operating on Route Irish in Baghdad, Iraq, on April 20, 2005 in what is known as a low-profile motorcade. Jack Fortune is an actor, known for Cardiac Arrest (1994), Your Cheatin' Heart (1990) and Route Irish (2010). It was still the most dangerous highway in the world at that point. The insurgency has proved to be alarmingly dynamic, with shifting tactics that have earned American commanders' respect, as well as contempt for the rebels' seeming indifference to the fate of the civilians, who have been their most numerous victims. By chance Marla Ruzicka's battered sedan was overtaking the convoy, and she and her Iraqi driver died as whole cars were chopped into shrapnel that spread for 50 metres. Insurgents in cars with darkened windows mingle in traffic, then lower windows for bursts of machine-gun fire. Secures Route Irish in Baghdad. Messages 1,982 Location FL. "When I'm on the airport road, I feel that there's only a hair's breadth between myself and eternity," he said. O. OilReport99. It was time to come home. Between them is this terrifying void that must be chanced by all who come to the Iraqi capital. Having said that, I will say anyone who didn’t travel Route Irish back in the bad old days of 2004-2005 probably shouldn’t have an opinion. My Army staff section dubbed the dangerous high-speed dash through Baghdad "Route Irish Racing." The Americans have opened a helicopter bridge to reduce the number of VIPs at risk. The highway, dubbed Route Irish by the military was a key route for the military, civilian contractors, and journalists in the days following the 2003 invasion of Iraq. fled. Route Irish is the military code name for the expressway arcing eastward from what was once Saddam International Airport, flanked by mainly Sunni Arab neighborhoods like Amariya, Hamra, Jihad and Qaddisiya that were strongholds of support for Saddam Hussein. Then, it was known as the most dangerous road in Iraq. The statue commemorates Abbas Ibn Firnas, an astronomer in Moorish Spain, who is said by legend to have built a primitive flying machine in A.D. 875 with which he made a gliding descent from a hillside outside Cordoba. Sometimes it's just a good old-fashioned drive-by shooting - usually the bullets are aimed at the head or below the waist because these killers don't want to waste ammunition by bouncing it off a bullet-proof vest. "As soon as I leave the terminal, or set out for the airport from the city, I begin reciting verses from the Koran to calm myself," said Mahmud al-Dulaymi, a 52-year-old airport maintenance worker who moonlights as a cabdriver on his days off. John Joseph Bishop is an award winning comedian. Invariably, the aftermath reveals a collision of fate and randomness that makes it seemingly impossible to fend off these strikes, which have the unsettling effect of making the firepower of the coalition, Iraqi forces and private security contractors as grave a risk for those who travel Route Irish as the insurgency bombs. All conversation in the car stops; every muscle tightens. At the other are Baghdad International Airport and the US military headquarters in Iraq. Ambush. The colour fades from Amar's knuckles as he grips the wheel. But one constant has been the vulnerability of the airport road, a journey so loathed, particularly by foreigners, that it has become their personal bellwether for the state of the war. But still, they agonize. 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