NYT: What’s in Iraq rumor mill?
BAGHDAD As a U.S. soldier peered out of a passing tank, a young engineering student and a retired accountant contemplated one of the more common questions on the streets of Baghdad: Did the soldier’s wraparound sunglasses give him X-ray vision?
‘With those glasses, he can definitely see through women’s clothes,’ said the engineering student, Samer Hamid. ‘It makes me angry. We are afraid to take our families out on the street.’