Unembedded: The Alternative War

"I used to have long hair," says Jamail. "I cut all my hair off so that I had an Iraqi short haircut. I grow a beard when I'm there, I wear local clothing, don't talk English in public."

"I only go around with my interpreter, just the two of us, and we go around in a beat-up car, leave the hotel at different times every day, take different routes when we do, drive around a while to make sure we're not being followed, then typically just go straight to where we're going to conduct the interview."