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Due to the risk of surface-to-air attacks against aircraft, we advise you not to travel over Iraq on aircraft without self-protection capabilities.

Travel Advice for Iraq

So if we plan to fly over Iraq we should make sure we take our F15, rather than our 747.

Apparently, there have also been three cases of avian influenza in Iraq. If the threat of being kidnapped, tortured and beheaded doesn't convince me to stay away then that influenza epidemic sure will.