{"id":1244,"date":"2003-05-30T03:59:49","date_gmt":"2003-05-30T17:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/30\/salam-pax-found\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:37:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:37:49","slug":"salam-pax-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/30\/salam-pax-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Salam Pax found"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14528,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/media.guardian.co.uk\\\/newmedia\\\/story\\\/0,7496,966935,00.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/media.guardian.co.uk\\\/newmedia\\\/story\\\/0,7496,966935,00.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14529,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/mefi\\\/26076&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20060112090658\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com:80\\\/mefi\\\/26076&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/mefi\\\/26076&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 08:07:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 08:07:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The UK paper The Guardian has found Salam Pax, of the <a href=\"http:\/\/dear_raed.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Where is Raed?\">Where is Raed?<\/a> weblog &#8212; and while they&#8217;re still keeping his identity secret, he will be writing for the Guardian <a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/newmedia\/story\/0,7496,966935,00.html\" title=\"Salam's Story\">starting next week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  No one in Baghdad knew who he was or the risks he was taking. Apart from a select group of trusted friends, they still don&#8217;t. The telephones and the internet haven&#8217;t worked here since the collapse of the regime, so the Iraqis never had a chance to read the diaries of the Baghdad Blogger. Outside the country, many didn&#8217;t even believe that the man who wrote only under the sobriquet Salam Pax truly existed. It was the great irony of the war. While the world&#8217;s leading newspapers and television networks poured millions of pounds into their coverage of the war in Iraq, it was the internet musings of a witty young Iraqi living in a two-storey house in a Baghdad suburb that scooped them all to deliver the most compelling description of life during the war.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/26076\" title=\"Salam's Story\">MeFi<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK paper The Guardian has found Salam Pax, of the Where is Raed? weblog &mdash; and while they&#8217;re still keeping his identity secret, he will be writing for the Guardian starting next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-1244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}