MUST READ! An Iraqi Blogger Goes Silent...
Did the Media Blow Baghdad Blogger's Cover? is an article in this week's Village Voice. I have been checking up on Where is Raed? for a couple of weeks and he hasn't blogged anything since a couple of days before I left for Las Vegas.
Here's a bit of the article: On Monday, March 24, the Baghdad Blogger went silent. For several months readers around the world—exponentially more as the war drew closer—had been following the daily postings of "Salam Pax," believed to be the only Iraqi citizen keeping a Web diary. He wrote in a sarcastic, funny voice about the dread of oncoming war and the annoyance of using outdated software, about Western perceptions of Iraqis and Iraqi perceptions of Westerners. He talked about his fear of the blog being discovered by Iraqi authorities, writing that if identified, "I'd be pasta sauce."
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