Monday, May 12, 2003
Salam Pax is back online!
Go read his stuff first hand.
Here is a sample quote of Salam Pax:
"I have made a very un-salam decision today. I let Raed talk me into going along with him on his next two day trip to the south. I am a bit of a coward; I am not dealing too well with all the bad things around me in Baghdad. I move thru the city with a wince. And what he has been telling me about his trip last week made me just want to crawl deeper into my cocoon. So what is Raed up to? Raed has been working for the last two weeks with a small outfit that is calling itself Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict [CIVIC], they think about the acronyms before the name, don’t they? They are a very small team of volunteers and almost-volunteers (I mean they are getting paid much less than their effort deserves) who are going around residential districts that have seen military action with these forms and trying to get as much information as they can about civilian deaths and injuries. They are also collecting hospital records in order to come to an estimation of the number of civilian casualties. Until now they have around 5000 injuries and deaths in Baghdad and they are starting to form teams in other Iraqi cities. This is what he wants to drag me into. We will go to Karbala, Samaweh, Naseriyah then basrah. And back thru Kut. These names should be familiar they have been thru quite a bit during the war. Raed has already been to these places, with the exception of Kut, and has put together teams there. In Samaweh we will meet one of our university friends and spend the night at his place because our driver abu-saif does not like the idea of arriving in Naseriyah late and spending the night there. He also says that the only unsafe bit of the trip will be the way thru Kut. Did you know we have a Hizbullah now in a Iraq? Rigt there in Kut an Amarah (do you know what Hizbullah means? It means God’s faction, allah’s party). This hizbulla is calling itself [hizbullah al iraqi] and is anti-Iranian. We will be going thru Hizbullah territory and this makes abu-saif uneasy. We’ll see. We will leave early Saturday and should be back on Monday, wish us a safe trip. "
and another
"There are stories in southern governorates of Ba’athists making “pre-emptive strikes” at people they are scared might come and kill them. "
There is much more. Go read his stuff first hand.
Go read his stuff first hand.
Here is a sample quote of Salam Pax:
"I have made a very un-salam decision today. I let Raed talk me into going along with him on his next two day trip to the south. I am a bit of a coward; I am not dealing too well with all the bad things around me in Baghdad. I move thru the city with a wince. And what he has been telling me about his trip last week made me just want to crawl deeper into my cocoon. So what is Raed up to? Raed has been working for the last two weeks with a small outfit that is calling itself Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict [CIVIC], they think about the acronyms before the name, don’t they? They are a very small team of volunteers and almost-volunteers (I mean they are getting paid much less than their effort deserves) who are going around residential districts that have seen military action with these forms and trying to get as much information as they can about civilian deaths and injuries. They are also collecting hospital records in order to come to an estimation of the number of civilian casualties. Until now they have around 5000 injuries and deaths in Baghdad and they are starting to form teams in other Iraqi cities. This is what he wants to drag me into. We will go to Karbala, Samaweh, Naseriyah then basrah. And back thru Kut. These names should be familiar they have been thru quite a bit during the war. Raed has already been to these places, with the exception of Kut, and has put together teams there. In Samaweh we will meet one of our university friends and spend the night at his place because our driver abu-saif does not like the idea of arriving in Naseriyah late and spending the night there. He also says that the only unsafe bit of the trip will be the way thru Kut. Did you know we have a Hizbullah now in a Iraq? Rigt there in Kut an Amarah (do you know what Hizbullah means? It means God’s faction, allah’s party). This hizbulla is calling itself [hizbullah al iraqi] and is anti-Iranian. We will be going thru Hizbullah territory and this makes abu-saif uneasy. We’ll see. We will leave early Saturday and should be back on Monday, wish us a safe trip. "
and another
"There are stories in southern governorates of Ba’athists making “pre-emptive strikes” at people they are scared might come and kill them. "
There is much more. Go read his stuff first hand.
