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We talked to clerics, politicians, stay-at-home mothers, political activists. The occasional flares of violence were localized and targeted. To work outside of Baghdad we would wake before dawn and drive sometimes five or six hours to reach remote villages or cities.
If the story called for more time on the ground, we would sleep at simple hotels, or on the floor of a contact we had befriended in the course of reporting. Human beings are incredibly adaptable. We can get used to virtually anything. Wartime Iraq entailed a predictable level of instability and violence, and most activities seemed safe enough.
The greatest danger was bad luckβfinding oneself near an American convoy that might get attacked or, for us foreign journalists, getting kidnapped by an opportunist looking for ransom money. In New York under corona, the shift from normal life to lockdown occurred gradually then all at once, over the course of a few short weeks.
In post-invasion Iraq, that transition took more than a year. The threats multiplied until they became ubiquitous.
There were numerous uprisings against the US occupation. Extremist groups like Al Qaeda kidnapped and murdered civilians, Iraqis as well as foreigners. Like everyone in Iraq, we feared death, dismemberment, and beheadingβthreats so commonplace that militants circulated recordings of their most grisly crimes on DVD. By the fall of , any trip outside the Hamra was dangerous. At the same time, there was no option to simply hunker down at home. This was a long-ago era, before smartphones and ubiquitous chat and video communications.