Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Baghdad Blogger: "It kind of reminded me of the time when I would get in a taxi a year ago and get the fright of my life because the driver had a tape of a sermon by Shia clerics on. The 'correct' thing to do was to ask the driver to turn it off, you know, just in case the driver was actually secret police and this was a test. Yes, paranoia ruled."

But a taxi driver has to be a chameleon to survive on the street

Hugh Watkins