Salam Pax is back Salam Pax, the anonymous Iraqi blogger who went worryingly silent during the US invasion, is back. And he makes up by clearing the backlog. I'd become bored of the war and politics -- that short western attention span -- but his account of Baghdad since the liberation is fascinating. It is far better than anything you'll read in the newspapers. Things you wouldn't have known: Thuraya satphones are the ultimate Baghdad status symbol; there's utter contempt for the exiles who've appropriated the best real estate (Chalabi's group took over Salam's sports club); locals would shoo out the Syrian Fedayeen creeps for fear they'd attract American retaliation; and Salam likes the communists, who are at least honest. It's great stuff.
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