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There's also been a mirror set up for people having problems with the underscore in the address.

http://dearraed.blogspot.com

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 24 March 2003 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm still agnostic as to weather its real or not. I guess time may tell.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 24 March 2003 15:53 (twenty-three years ago)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&ncid=&e=5&u=/usatoday/20030324/tc_usatoday/4982045

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 24 March 2003 19:42 (twenty-three years ago)

This story goes into the details of tracerouting Salam's connection to the net. In short, he's probably real.

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Monday, 24 March 2003 19:48 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

any word on this dude? I note the original site hasn't been updated since Mar 24.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 5 May 2003 02:17 (twenty-three years ago)

nothing yet :(

but does baghdad have reliable electricity again? my guess = not

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 5 May 2003 11:32 (twenty-three years ago)

. . . and it would depend on reliable phone service to/from jordan as well, right?

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 5 May 2003 13:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I know that the Iraqi internet provider was cut off just before the war.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Monday, 5 May 2003 13:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Salam Pax is back ! He had to have a friend update the blog for him, but lots of new postings. I am very glad to hear the news.

― daria g, Thursday, 8 May 2003 01:17 (twenty-three years ago)

from a 4/1 entry on Dear Raed:
"There is one item which I have not thought I would need a big supply of: antacids. Air raid sirens start wailing or the heavy bombs start falling; five minutes later I go for the drawer with the antacids. Now every time the bombing starts my brother starts humming Nirvana’s “Pennyroyal Tea” :

”I'm on warm milk and laxatives

Cherry-flavored antacids”

But these Iraqi antacids have no flavor, it feels like you are chewing plaster of Paris."

― daria g, Thursday, 8 May 2003 01:24 (twenty-three years ago)

So I guess this means my suspicion that he wasn't real was wrong. Maybe I have a strange view of what it would be like for someone to live in Iraq, but his command of English-language colloquialisms still strikes me as somewhat off.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 8 May 2003 01:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Nice to see an Iraqi say that Iraqis should show some patience.

― Stuart (Stuart), Thursday, 8 May 2003 12:54 (twenty-three years ago)

That's really condescending, Stuart. :(

― Kerry (dymaxia), Thursday, 8 May 2003 13:22 (twenty-three years ago)

How? I agree with him.

― Stuart (Stuart), Thursday, 8 May 2003 14:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Your comment implies gratitude that one of "theirs" is keeping "them" in check. It's kind of imperious. You need to think about the implications of your belief that it is appropriate to tell Iraqis what they "should" do.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Thursday, 8 May 2003 15:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Furthermore, how do you know that your definition of "patience" is not his definition of "patience"?

And if you "agree" with him, then what do you make of all the parts in his blog that don't square with your views?

― Kerry (dymaxia), Thursday, 8 May 2003 15:07 (twenty-three years ago)

So I can't have an opinion about what Iraqis should do, but if I did have and opinion and an actual Iraqi agreed with me, I can't appreciate it? It wouldn't be worth me mentioning that "hey, look, an Iraqi is saying basically the same thing I said the other week" if some people hadn't tried to tell me that that I'm just some guy who knows what he knows from reading Newsweek and has no business having an opinion about how Iraqis should be reasonably expected to behave.

I said I agreed with him that Iraqis should be patient for a little while. I don't have to agree with everything he's ever said.

― Stuart (Stuart), Thursday, 8 May 2003 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Does Stuart post to any threads but the ones where he has an opportunity to thump his foot about postwar Iraq?

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 8 May 2003 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I guess I could start thumping my foot about Taco Bell and green Pumas and my sex life if you really want.

― Stuart (Stuart), Thursday, 8 May 2003 15:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah but it's odd; if you just wanted to thump your foot about the same issue over and over again, why not go somewhere where that issue is the central concern?

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 8 May 2003 15:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Or you could become the ILE Geir and post pithy messages about postwar Iraq in Taco Bell threads.

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 8 May 2003 15:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I read lots of other threads, just don't post to many of them. I post on more diverse topics on other boards, just not here so much.

― Stuart (Stuart), Thursday, 8 May 2003 15:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Salam Pax now posts to the new Baghdad Indymedia .

― Kerry (dymaxia), Thursday, 22 May 2003 13:39 (twenty-three years ago)

neat!

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 04:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Love the editing between this in the Guardian (last section) and the original paragraph on dearraed (third section of that entry). Are all his articles in the Guardian going to be previous blog entries with bits hacked out? Because otherwise I might even have bought the thing.

― Frazer, Tuesday, 3 June 2003 11:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Uh, that sounded a lot pissier than intended and anyway nobody else here will know, so ignore that, sorry.

― Frazer, Tuesday, 3 June 2003 11:50 (twenty-three years ago)

He'll probably have his own talk show soon, and we'll be all the better for it.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

three months pass...

salam pax promo-"commercial" by designers republic/warp records (music by aphex twin)

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw his Baghdad Blog on sale in WHSmith last week. I wonder if someone has just published it without telling him???

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

we take their oil, we take their blogs.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

He was in London the other week, apparently, touring Radio 4 chat shows and being interviewed in the Guardian. Presumably he knows where he's being published.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

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