Salam Pax: Zipper It!

Meryl Yourish makes an excellent point in her email to me today. Many people have been reading Salam Pax's writings about the American airstrikes etc. on Where Is Raed? Please remember: this guy lives in a regime where torture and murder on the most minor pretexts are commonplace. Don't offer details beyond "lives in Iraq" if you write about him, and if any brain-dead reporters or bloggers happen to do so in the next little while, don't link to them.

Saddam's hard boys are kind of busy right now, which means their time to track someone like him down is limited. Flood the net with too much information, however, and you could help make the job easy enough. Remember what these mentions do to Google rankings.

Oh, and "Salam," if you read this blog... the Iraqi regime is more brutal than most, but the usual M.O. in these situations is to begin surveillance. Sometimes directly, sometimes through family. My judgement of what has happened and what's to come says that this will take more than a few days - we're probably talking 2-3 weeks. Going off the air for a while would be a really good idea... no idea what things a desperate regime may find provocative.

You'll have lots of time to blog later.

P.S. Thanks, Diane. If you readers and journalists out there really want to read an Iraqi blog, I recommend Saddam Hussein's.

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