Peace, Out…
June 06, 2003
Despite the scores of scribes shuffling through Iraq before the war and the hundreds that arrived with the troops, there was precious little written on the lives of ordinary Iraqis. Into the breach came Salam Pax, the mysterious blogger of Baghdad. But after the bombing started in late March, the world wondered, was he safe? Was he even real? Peter Maass, who was based in Baghdad during the war, tells Brooke how he unmasked the mysterious blogger.
