“What we can know, just by reading his blog, is that this Salam is up to no good. He is spreading “inside views” of the new Iraq, not only to the blogosphere, but directly among the journalists still encamped at the Meridian (formerly Palestine, formerly Meridian) hotel. Not the “embeds” who’ve gone home after remarkable learning experiences, but those “hacks” not yet transferred to the next breaking news story, and so still kicking around this mysterious city of Baghdad, trying to figure out what’s happening without exposing themselves overmuch to danger.|And they lap it up….” David Warren —‘Salam Pax’ Plays Americans for Fools in Iraq (Ottawa Citizen)
Hmm. Now if Salaam Pax were to meet up with isabella v….
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