Tucker Carlson has an article in Esquire about some of the private security guys hired by the Pentagon to provide protection in Iraq. He's got a tid bit about Sean Penn.
The week before I arrived, Sean Penn came to Iraq on some sort of special assignment for the San Francisco Chronicle. The actor was getting out of a cab in downtown Baghdad when a group of contractors spotted him. The contractors didn't share Penn's politics. Plus, they found the idea of him annoying. So they took his camera and made him stand in the rain for forty-five minutes while they ran an imaginary security check on his equipment. There was nothing Penn could do about it. They had guns. He didn't. Tough luck.
Ain't life grand?
Posted by Tim at February 8, 2004 08:34 AM