http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/03/60minutes/main1007984.shtml(CBS) Lt. Col. Geoffrey Slack’s job, keeping a six-mile stretch of road open between downtown Baghdad and the city’s airport, was one of the most dangerous you could have in Iraq, a job he likened to a “vicious knife fight in a dark room.”
60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan goes on patrol with Col. Slack and his men as they defend what has become known as the world’s most dangerous road, this Sunday, Nov. 6, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
On one patrol, Logan watches as Slack approaches a slit-open fuel can in the road that turns out to be a bomb. “It’s either I do it or they do it,” says Slack, referring to his men.
He’s lost four of them over seven months, but almost as frustrating to Slack is the fact that the road is still not secure. “I would have to tell you that by the purest definition of secure, I still haven’t been successful.
is a work in progress,” he says.
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