Ferid, a 20-year-old college student from Baghdad, has started his blog. In his first post, he says:
Hi every one :)
I hope you like what garbage I write here :P and remember to come back always for more of my garbage :P
This guy Eric has something to do with the press in the green zone. Interesting posts. He seems to be involved with Ambassador Negroponte's first out of town trip and offers some behind the scenes info on Bremers last, er, out of town trip (which appears to have been surprise scheduled in advance. That is to say, the surprise party was planned but nobody apparently knew about it except for Bremer)...;
The plan had been that we would have 24 hour notice, and give the press about 8 hours notice before the inauguration. What actually happened was that I came down from the studio at 0900 to find Greg outside Bremer's office wearing a suit. Alarm bells immediately started going off in my mind and my worst fears were realized... (read more...)
My War blogged by CBFTW who, it would seem, is a soldier posted in Mosul. Guernica is one of his favorite Picasso's, in fact he even had a poster of it on his barracks room wall back in Fort Lewis. I guess CBFTW had to leave the poster back in Fort Lewis, otherwise he'd probably have to conceal it, that's if he wasn't court marshaled first for blogging William Sherman;
"I am sick and tired of war. It's glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell."
-William Tecumseh Sherman
Kurdistan bloggers union kbu
If you scroll all the way down you may notice a little green box showing who the contributors to this blog now are.
Interesting spate of new blogs...
Iracke hlasy; Somebody/s translating Iraq blogs into Czech, so far they cover Healing Iraq, Iraq at A Glance, Read in The Middle and Riverbend.
Ever wondered what became of g? Ghaith Abdul Ahad has been hanging out around the Iraqi resistance (one almost gains the impression he enjoys it). I suppose this is what used to be called "grass roots".
...Then another man shows up, shortish and in his 40s, and while everyone is ducking or hiding behind columns, he strolls about as if he is in the park. Another fighter loads an RPG for him and the guy turns with the thing on his shoulder as if looking for the direction he should shoot in. Someone shouts: "Push him into the street before he fires it at us!" Another fighter grabs him around his waist and pushes him to the corner where he stands, bullets whizzing around him, takes his time, and - boom! - fires his RPG. He stands there until someone grips his pants and pulls him in.
...The walls and the ground are varnished with fresh blood. In the market a couple of shops are on fire from earlier fighting. A man is hiding behind a pile of empty banana boxes with his eight-year-old son.
More new blogs, from the new and prolific Abu Khaleel;
An Iraqi who is fearful of the long-term damage being done to Iraq and to America.
Baghdad Girl; Raghda Zaid blogs from Baghdad, at 13 years she is probably one of the blogosphere's youngest bloggers and is Iraq's youngest blogger so far. Her's is also the 50th Iraq blog linked here.
A Star from Mosul, brand new blog from Najma Abdullah who is 16 and blogging from Iraq. A star and perhaps nascent cinematographer, she handles a camera pretty well.
Iraq Blog counting ~ Iraq blogs counted and linked. To add your blog, please contact Salam Adil or Abbas Hawazin.
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