Is the Baghdad blogger for real?
Who is Salam Pax, author of the anonymous Baghdad blog? According to Paul Boutin, A whois and traceroute on Salam's most recent originating address got as far as Transtrum, a unit of the Lebanon-based ISP TerraNet. Requests for further routing info from Transtrum went unanswered, but senior network engineers who looked at the headers for me in the US think they're legitimately from Iraq.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Life in Baghdad via the web [BBC]
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