They were ultimately released at the Baghdad airport and were never charged or designated security risks.
Rice and Straw landed at the Baghdad airport Sunday morning during a heavy rainstorm.
We were helicoptering in from Baghdad airport to the Green Zone...
In September he tried to get a paramilitary force to seize control of Baghdad airport during a pay dispute with a London-based firm that runs airport security.
In 2009, American troops opened fire at a Baghdad airport checkpoint, killing Italian secret service agent Nicola Calipari and wounding a just-freed Italian hostage, journalist Giuliana Sgrena, whom Calipari was trying to spirit out of the country.
The containers were first moved to the secure International Zone in central Baghdad and then to Baghdad International Airport, where thery were loaded onto C-17 cargo planes.
So said the young warrant officer with the bandana on his head as a group of visitors prepared to board his Chinook helicopter at Baghdad International Airport a little over a month ago.
Two more parked car bombs went off in a parking lot on the road that leads to Baghdad International Airport and killed three people, including a bodyguard of a Shiite lawmaker whose convoy was passing by.
They were then taken to Camp Cropper near Baghdad International Airport, where they "experienced a nightmarish scene in which they were detained incommunicado, in solitary confinement, and subjected to physical and psychological torture for the duration of their imprisonment - Vance for three months and Ertel for six weeks", the court wrote, reiterating the men's allegations.
Obama, who is visiting Iraq as part of a U.S. congressional delegation, was greeted at Baghdad's airport by Gen.
One Blackwater operative told a reporter on a flight home from the Middle East that he had served as a bodyguard, escorting American personnel along the extremely dangerous road from Baghdad's airport to the fortified Green Zone downtown.
Baghdad's international airport has been temporarily closed, as have some of Iraq's borders.
U.S.-led coalition forces launched an assault on Saddam International Airport southwest of Baghdad Thursday.
The first time I went to Baghdad, I could travel by road from the airport to the town...
The U.S. military's top brass in Iraq and tens of thousands of soldiers once resided here, near the international airport about 10 miles west of downtown Baghdad, enjoying a slice of Americana, with perks such as Salsa night, speedway racing and fly fishing.
The BBC's Jim Muir in Baghdad said the troops were returning to their base at Basra airport after carrying out a re-supply mission at their Basra Palace base.
For more than three years, Baghdad's residents haven't been able to travel to their own airport without wondering if they'll make it.
At the Amman airport, he was refused entry and put back on a plane to Baghdad, where he remains at this reading, in hiding.
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