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Andrew Drury most recently enjoyed a holiday dodging ISIS sniper fire in Iraq — a far cry from his comfortable life owning a construction company in Surrey.
He’s been a war tourist for the past two decades, having visited such garden spots as Somalia, Uganda, Mogadishu, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and North Korea.
“It’s risk and reward,” Drury, 50, told CNN earlier this year. “The reward is that you see more, and you learn more. We’re not born to do 9-to-5 jobs. You have to explore a little bit and try to understand the world you’re living in.”
The married father of two said his wife isn’t thrilled with his odd vacation choices.
“My wife isn’t speaking to me at the moment,” he told the Daily Mail.
“I try to explain to people, the bigger question is, I work in a building trade and a lot of people I work with believe now every Muslim is a killer, or even every person with brown skin.”



