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Originally Posted by sir_pudding
I was in Ar Ramadi and Habbinya, Al Anbar province in 2009 (which you know, given that we tried to game via Skype!), but that's the (wild) West Division and the Sunni part of the country.
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One PC has spent two tours there with Special Forces, as well as having been in-country with the 75th Ranger Regiment during the invasion in 2003, before donning the Green Beret. He's born in Detroit, but has Iraqi immigrant parents and can pass convincingly for a Sunni Iraqi*.
In any case, I imagine that food vendors and taxi drivers might have similarities. Did they accept dollars and speak decent English or did they demand dinars in rapid-fire Arabic?
*Less convincingly the further whomever he is asked to pass as diverges from his actual background, of course. He's had some training in various Islamic theologies and Middle Eastern cultures as part of his Delta training, but he's not a scholar of Islamic theology and his grasp of Mandean or Jazidi religion and culture is very weak.