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An NBC camera crew and I were kneeling and sitting cross-legged in front of four brown Porta-Potties outside Baghdad International Airport.

It was midnight. We were eating.

Anwar Sabeeh Faktier, Haidar Jameel Ghafel and Atheer Ahmed Kakan had been up in Kirkuk for a couple days, where I'd been embedded with the 10th Mountain Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team. They were shooting 'B-roll,' backup tape, for an oil story along the pipeline up there.