SSAF REPORT FROM BAGHDAD -- Monday, 11-10

Nick Ashton from a roof in Baghdad | 11-10-03 | Doug from Upland

[doug from upland]

I reported a few days ago that Nick Ashton, the head of the company with which I work, was going to Baghdad. He landed on Sunday at the Baghdad Airport in a plane that had one of its two engines working.

We have been communicating by internet with MSN messaging. Tonight, I was able to call him. He went up to the roof of the compound at which he is staying so he could get a signal.

Of the Iraqis he has met, they are very glad that the United States has liberated them from the torturous hellhole that was the regime of Sadaam Hussein.

We are doing work for the provisional government and commercial interests. If you have read my previous posts, glass is a killer in explosions. We manufacture and install the world's state of the art window film. It has saved lives around the world for over three decades. It was estimated in a report about the U.N. bombing in Baghdad that 80% of the injuries and deaths were caused by shards of glass. For some reason, the U.N. wasted six months in having film put on their glass. It cost lives.

Nick is expecting a terrible day tomorrow (it is already tomorrow there) because of Veterans' Day. It is a surreal and dangerous place. His trip from the airport to the compound was dicey. He called it RPG alley. They are constantly firing those things, and it is hard to catch the perps.

SSAF did a demonstration today on a vehicle. A brick was thrown at a window, and it went right through. Our team installed our new 11-mil film on the glass. In 120 seconds, they made 61 direct hits on the glass with the brick and it didn't even break. Then, they took a centerpunch, which, of course, shattered the window. They hit it some more with the brick but could not penetrate the vehicle.

Our team is being treated very well in Baghdad. We hope that we are going to be saving many innocent lives because we know the terror is not going to stop until there are an awful lot more dead Islamist crazies.

[GeronL]

Cool!

Auto Glass Plus is an amazing thing in a warzone.

Sorry. I'll leave the humor to others.

[GeronL]

I hope your friend will stay safe

[Irish Eyes]

Auto glass???????

[doug from upland]

Thanks. While instant messaging, he told me he heard another loud boom. Then, while talking on the cell phone from the roof, there was a lot of gunfire. He says he can't stay up there very long to talk.

[doug from upland]

Our window film is mostly for buildings, but it has been used by a number of law enforcement agencies also on their vehicles.

[GeronL]

Auto Glass Plus is a local company that comes to your house and puts in a new windshield on your vehicle.

It was a pretty stupid joke

[doug from upland]

It was kinda funny.

[GeronL]

Maybe he could lie down on the roof?? and thats not a joke BTW

[GeronL]

autoglassplus.com

[doug from upland]

A typical street handgun prevented from penetrating.

[ChiefKujo]

Privately send me his phone number there, As I'm on the airfield and my unit (1AD) may be able to give him some business.

ChiefKujo

[doug from upland]

I just sent you my number here in California. Are you in Baghdad?

[doug from upland]

I just FReep mailed you my email.

[doug from upland]

Glass and shrapenel is not a pretty sight.

[Valin]

Tell him to be careful!
And thanks for the update.

Ragtime Cowgirl
You might be interested in this.

[doug from upland]

Got your email. Thanks.

[doug from upland]

Apparently, it is pretty scary up there on the roof.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Great report, doug. Thank you. Ping for your lifesaving company and product.

What was the name again? (^;

Adding your friend to the prayer thread, with the other brave troops and civilians risking their lives to free Iraq.

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[blackie]

Tough Glass ~ Bump!