Picnic in Iraq

Picnic in Iraq Synopsis

February 1991, the Iraqi army retreats from their invasion of Kuwait. Omar Khaled, a Republican Guard Colonel, heads back to Baghdad, with twenty kilos of looted diamonds in two picnic boxes. He evades an American air-strike and hides the stones in the desert. He marks the location on a map, which he conceals inside the back door of his Landcruiser. The vehicle hits an IED and the colonel is badly injured. He is found by the American military and after treatment, is interrogated by the CIA. Before he can tell them where the map is hidden, he dies. The story moves forward to 2008. Jack Castle is the Ops Director of a security company in Baghdad. His friend and colleague, Tom Hillman, is refurbishing an old Landcruiser, when he discovers the colonel's secreted map. There is a hand written