Rogue's Gallery: 00010 The Fixer

The Fixer is the second Iraqi that I have ever spoken to. Amazingly enough his real is the Fixer. He has a real name but he says that Westerners can’t don’t have the skills to pronounce it, so he prefers for Westerners to call him Fixer. He is one of those smarmy types that you find in the swap meet wearing dirty tracksuits and ostentatious gold chains. Well he is the guy that “leases” vehicles to people at some of the sites. When you gpo by his site you probably feel like you are in some movie where the dope deal was about to go down. It has a very illegal, dirty, and dangerous feel to it. On top of that the guy begins and ends every sentence with "My friend" and seemed to love physical contact as if he was about to tell you he's one man short of the perfect plan and you are just the guy.

It’s a dangerous job for him and his people because he has to actually get the cars from one spot in Iraq to the next. He just recently had a worker to pick up an SUV out of Baghdad and drive it to one of the bases. That was two months ago he hasn’t seen the truck or heard from the driver since. Due to realites such as that you have to pay a premium on these vehicles.

We have a Nissan pickup truck that has no heat (how that is I don’t know) a cracked windshield, no air, it barely starts, it has all sorts of dents and dings. It is a textbook hooptie. A rapper called Devin the Dude has a song called Lacville ’79 that explains the condition the truck is in perfectly. Honestly the truck is probably worth 1000.00. We pay 1500.00 a month. You want something brand new off the lot like a 2003 or 2004 Tahoe or a Suburban with all the bells and whistles? It will run you 4000.00 a month.

Oh yeah, he only deals in American cash.