Colonel:
I don’t know who your agent was in Baghdad, but I used a small company run by a nice man called Sabbah Bourachian and he gave me plenty of Arabic Manifests for me to fill in prior to myself and my drivers reaching the border at Zahko. I was always first throught the gate and the first down to the Garage at the corner where you turned right to go over the mountain to Mosul, where we used to go to customs for a first clearance. His office was on Saadoun Street. The name esccapes me now but it was either Orient Transport or Trading Transport. Of course, as you know all these trading companies were nationalised when Saddam got organised and they became the Public Land Transport Company, what a mouthful.
When I was doing Baghdad,I went with so many different cargoes for so many different clients and driving for different firms that I seemed to have a different agent every time I was there.
I remember the name of one agent who had offices all over the Middle East,that was Al Ik Desad.
I well remember the first garage in Iraq,this was the first sign post you saw, just by the garage.
