June 3, 2003
PEACE OUT
When I first wrote about Salam Pax [see
href="http://lexiphane.com/lex/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1
06">FIRST PERSON ACCOUNT, 5/7/03] there was still some
question as to who he was and what his goals were by blogging from
Baghdad, if indeed he even was in Iraq. Slate's Peter Maass
wound up getting probably the most unintentional scoop of the year
while he was in Iraq, but didn't even realize it until he got home and
decided to check out Salam's site,
href="http://www.dear_raed.blogspot.com/">Where is
Raed?:
His latest post mentioned an afternoon he spent at the Hamra Hotel
pool, reading a borrowed copy of The New Yorker . I laughed out loud.
He then mentioned an escapade in which he helped deliver 24 pizzas to
American soldiers. I howled. Salam Pax, the most famous and most
mysterious blogger in the world, was my interpreter. The New Yorker he
had been reading--mine. Poolside at the Hamra--with me. The 24 pizzas--
we had taken them to a unit of 82nd Airborne soldiers I was writing
about.
So Salam Pax is legit, whatever his background happens to be. If
you're interested in what he's like as described by someone that
actually met him, read Maass'
href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2083847/">story. It's interesting.
Posted by Lexiphane at June 3, 2003 10:54 AM
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