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Hey, I didn’t expect that! Since I’ve posted a mirror of Salam Pax blog I’m getting tons of emails… Well, I’ll clear up some issues that were coming up in several emails:
- I don’t know how’s Salam right now. I cannot access his site at the moment and had not heard from him yet (sent him an email). My guess is that as the massive attack is currently taking place in baghdad, he’s not going to be near the computer, and even if he is, I’ll be surprised to learn that the internet connection and ISP are operating. We’ll just have to sit and wait.
- I don’t host his whole site. I’ve just copied the front page the last time I was able to access it and posted that. All the links on that page are still directed at blogspot.com which currently refuse to load Salam’s site. If you’re really interested in the archives, your best chance is to relay on Google’s cached versions: Go here and instead of clicking the main link (in blue) click the little “Cached” on the end (in grey). That’s the best solution I can come up with right now.
- Yes, I’m Israeli, and no, I don’t think its weird that I’m mirroring an Iraqi guy’s blog. We’re all people, you know, we’re not robots programmed with the official political stands of our countries. If someone is fine with me on a personal level I see no reason why I shouldn’t be fine with him. Been backpacking with Iranians twice already, why should it be weird to mirror an Iraqi?
- Diana has posted part of Salam’s email reply to her, about the reports that Uday, Saddam’s son, was injured. Seems something has happened to someone. Check it out! (That is, unless you come from Diana in the first place…)
Salam get extreme attention online now, but I’m not sure he’s aware of it. I just hope he’s fine and that those American bombs DOES know exactly where to fall. Israeli News reports people in the pentagon said they have information that saddam himself was injured in the initial attack, I just hope this means a close surrender of the Iraqi army and a near end of the war.
BTW, Diana SMSed me that she placed a link to the mirror on her site. She also writes some wroth-reading things there:
- “I cannot not not not get over the irony of this war and how we are all communicating with one another. I am a sort-of-hawk (at least, conditionally pro-war), and I am communicating with a Baghdadi from New York City; an Israeli puts up a mirror site for this Iraqi; the guy in Baghdad wishes an Israeli woman and her family well while he is about to be shocked and awed by my country’s unparalleled ability to wage war; she puts up a website from the IDF Home Command for him to download a PDF survival guide in Arabic.
The wrong people are running the world but that’s nothing new, is it?”
Be sure to check her out.
Israel seems to be completely out of the war, which is ver good. I don’t think there will be any missiles falling here soon. Not ones from Iraq, anyway…
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hi civax!
just wondering if you had an e-mail address for raed? we’re all thinking of all of u at the moment and just wanted to send him our best wishes…
take care
I live in the middle of nowhere West Virginia (USA), and I’m just praying for EVERYBODY.
Ilana, here are the emails:
Salam Pax : salampax@ nme.com
Raed : raidjarrar@ yahoo.com
You seem to be missing this entry from your mirror:
as usual Diane comes to the rescue
IS SALAM PAX REAL? [link to http://gotham.realwomenonline.com/archives/002105.html#002105
please stop sending emails asking if I were for real, don’t belive it? then don’t read it.
I am not anybody’s propaganda ploy, well except my own.
2 more hours untill the B52’s get to Iraq.
:: salam 7:05 AM [+] ::
I can still get to the page easily, odd.
Robre: If you can still get the page, will you please save it (On explorer go to File -> Save As), zip it (the html file and directory with images) and email it to me at civax@ cfxweb.net ?
Thanks!
thanks for the addresses! still watching in disbelief!
I am sorry it took war for me to find out about your journal. You are a wonderful person and I am enjoying reading about you.
Hugs, Angela
Came over here from Diana’s.
I’m having no problem with Salam’s, but there’s no new update since the one about Diana.
did anyone else see the "4567" post on salam’s page 3/21/03? it disappeared the next time i checked his page.
Posted Diana’s comment in my blog last night, you are sooooo right, we are all people…. you are fine in my book just for saying it
Miguel
Venezuela
salam pax his updated blog again. looks like his internet connection was down:
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:: Monday, March 24, 2003 ::
I have internet again will post soon.
but i really have to apologize to the people at [www.industrialdeathrock.com] because the amount of traffic this blog has been getting cause their servers to go down, I am very sorry. I should have been more careful.
looking thri my mail i see that this blog has also been causing blogspot problems. sorry. and Blogger has been generous again with me and allowed this to go and and help. thanks. my mail box is full because of the last two days of internet blackout, going thru them now.
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I assume everyone can access salam’s blog. here’s today’s entry just in case. GOod to see him back!
:: Monday, March 24, 2003 ::
The last two days we didn’t have internet access. I thought that was it and started what a friend called a “pblog”, what you will read is what should have been the entries for the 22nd and 23rd.
Blogger and Google have created a mirror to this weblog at [dearraed.blogspot.com] for those of you who have trouble with the underscore in the URL. There are not enough words to thank the people at Blogger for their help and support.
22/3
4:30pm (day3)
half an hour ago the oil filled trenches were put on fire. First watching Al-jazeera they said that these were the places that got hit by bombs from an air raid a few miniutes earlier bit when I went up to the roof to take a look I saw that there were too many of them, we heard only three explosions. I took pictures of the nearest. My cousine came and told me he saw police cars standing by one and setting it on fire. Now you can see the columns of smoke all over the city.
Todat the third in the war, we had quite a number of attacks during daytime. Some without air-raid sirens. They probably just gave up on being able to be on time to sound the sirens. Last night, after waves after waves of attacks, they would sound the all-clear siren only to start another raid siren 30 minutes later.
The images we saw on TV last night (not Iraqi, jazeera-BBC-Arabiya) were terrible. The whole city looked as if it were on fire. The only thing I could think of was “why does this have to happen to Baghdad”. As one of the buildings I really love went up in a huge explosion I was close to tears.
today my father and brother went out to see what happening in the city, they say that it does look that the hits were very precise but when the missiles and bombs explode they wreck havoc in the neighborhood where they fall. Houses near al-salam palace(where the minister Sahaf took journalist) have had all their windows broke, doors blown in and in one case a roof has caved in. I guess that is what is called “collateral damage” and that makes it OK?
We worry about daytime bombing and the next round of attacks tonight with the added extra of the smoke screen in our skies.
23/3
8:30pm (day4)
we start counting the hours from the moment one of the news channels report that the B52s have left their airfield. It takes them around 6 hours to get to Iraq. On the first day of the bombing it worked precisely. Yesterday we were a bit surprised that after 6 hours bombs didn’t start falling. The attacks on Baghdad were much less than two days ago. We found out today in the news that the city of Tikrit got the hell bombed out of it. To day the B52s took off at 3pm, on half an hour we will know whether it is Baghdad tonight or another city. Karbala was also hit last night.
Today’s (and last night’s) shock attacks didn’t come from airplanes but rather from the airwaves. The images Al-jazeera is broadcasting are beyond any description. First was the attack on (Ansar el Islam) camp in the north of Iraq. Then the images of civilian casualties in Basra city. What was most disturbing are the images from the hospitals. They are simply not prepared to deal with these things. People were lying on the floor with bandages and blood all over. If this is what “urban warefare” is going to look like we’re in for disaster. And just now the images of US/UK prisoners and dead, we saw these on Iraqi TV earlier. This war is starting to show its ugly ugly face to the world.
The media wars have also started, Al-jazeera accusing the pentagon of not showing how horrific this war is turning out to be and Rumsfeld saying that it is regrettable that some TV stations have shown the images.
Today before noon I went out with my cousin to take a look at the city. Two things. 1) the attacks are precise. 2) they are attacking targets which are just too close to civilian areas in Baghdad. Looked at the Salam palace and the houses around it. Quite scary near it and you can see widows with broken glass till very far off. At another neighborhood I saw a very unexpected “target” it is an officers’ club of some sorts smack in the middle of [………] district. I guess it was not severely hit because it was still standing but the houses around it, and this is next door and across the street, were damaged. One of them is rubble the rest are clearing away glass and rubble. A garbage car stands near the most damaged houses and help with the cleaning up.
Generally the streets are quite busy. Lots of cars but not many shops open. The market near our house is almost empty now. The shop owner says that all the wholesale markets in Shorjah are closed now but the prices of vegetables and fruits have gone down to normal and are available.
While buying groceries the woman who sells the vegetables was talking to another about the approach of American armies to Najaf city and about what is happening at Um Qasar and Basra. If Um Qasar is so difficult to control what will happen when they get to Baghdad? It will turn uglier and this is very worrying. People (and I bet “allied forces”) were expecting things to be mush easier. There are no waving masses of people welcoming the Americans nor are they surrendering by the thousands. People are oing what all of us are, sitting in their homes hoping that a bomb doesn’t fall on them and keeping their doors shut.
The smoke columns have now encircled Baghdad, well almost. The wids blow generally to the east which leaves the western side of Baghdad clear. But when it comes in the way of the sun it covers it totally, it is a very thick cloud. We are going to have some very dark days, literally.
We still have electricity; some areas in Baghdad don’t after last night’s attack. Running water and phones are working.
Yesterday many leaflets were dropped on Baghdad, while going around in the streets I got lucky, I have two. After being so unkind to the people at [industrialdeathrock.com] I don’t know whether I should post images or not.
And we have had another email attack, this time I was lucky again and have copies of those, the sender is something called [blablabla@hotpop.com]. I have not checked on that yet. Three of them are to army personnel and two to the general public in those they gave us the radio frequencies we are supposed to listen to. They are calling it “information Radio”.
:: salam 4:41 PM [+] ::
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I have internet again will post soon.
but i really have to apologize to the people at [www.industrialdeathrock.com] because the amount of traffic this blog has been getting cause their servers to go down, I am very sorry. I should have been more careful.
looking thri my mail i see that this blog has also been causing blogspot problems. sorry. and Blogger has been generous again with me and allowed this to go and and help. thanks. my mail box is full because of the last two days of internet blackout, going thru them now.
:: salam 3:24 PM [+] ::
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hey i am new in the blog scene and u happend to be the second blog i encountered…its good to know there are people like u who bust steretypes about arabs.. jews….blah..blah.i had met a few Israelis on atrek and had found them to be very open minded
We all Bangladeshi are fighting mentally against coalition trops from here. Carry on Salam….
Hi,
Here in Auckalnd, New Zealand …wishing you guys peace and proud of your efforts to help each other. Salam Pax is real - caught in the middle. He humanizes the reality - people….
Passionate for peace
G.
hi Civax
i am very worried about all Iraqis and salam…hope u’ve heard from him…though i don’t see how…pretty sad about the suicide blast in Israel too.
War is over,
Shame on us, we fail to stop killing of the innocent people…
The Silicon Valley Geek.