Where is Raed ?

Where is Raed ? is a weblog written by Salam Pax, an architect in Baghdad which I read about in the latest issue of The New Yorker. In his blog, Salam discusses life daily life and politics in Baghdad. It is thought to be the only blog coming out of Iraq.r
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The last post in Where is Raed ? was written nearly a week ago…r
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3/22: “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…”r
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3/23: “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.” r
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