The interpreter currently working with Dan has been reluctant to be seen on too many streets with a foreigner. He's heard that insurgents have access to police records and are tracking cars to Iraqi homes.
When Dan got up to leave after a pleasant meeting at the al-Wahid family's home (
see story), Mrs. Wahid frowned at Dan's leather shoulder bag and asked him to wait. She rummaged in a drawer and pulled out a plastic bag. "Put it in here," she said. "Your bag looks like a reporter's bag - it's risky if people think we've been talking to reporters."
Says Dan: "It's a small thing. But it's the first time any Iraqi has been afraid about having me in their home."
David Clark Scott World editor
Cultural snapshot
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