The first group of tourists has visited Iraq on a two-week tour organized by an English agency called Hinterland Travel

National Review, Dec 8, 2003

* The first group of tourists has visited Iraq on a two-week tour organized by an English agency called Hinterland Travel. Among them was a cab driver from San Francisco, one Joseph Allen. The Baghdad opera is not yet up, but the group was treated to an interesting show nonetheless: They witnessed a man--a thief, they presumed--being beaten to death with an iron bar (not part of the tour package).

Allen told the New York Post that the $2,200 tour was worth every cent, and said that he found the Iraqis very welcoming.