When Jacob Nemec's family heard he was planning to go on holiday in Iraq, they pleaded with the 28-year-old American to reconsider.
its first Gulf Cup in more than 40 years earlier this year, with thousands of Arab visitors in attendance - an event that helped put the country back on the map.
Nemec, along with a Russian and a British tourist, visited the maze-like ruins of the ancient city of Babylon, the Shi'ite holy city of Najaf with its tight alleys and mud-brick houses, and the old city of Mosul in the north. He said the country's image in the West as an arena of conflict would gradually change as more people visited.
It urges people to write a will and make funeral arrangements with their families should they chose to go.
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