Map of Iraqi Bloggers

http://acepilots.com ^ | 12/9/03 | http://acepilots.com

[BCrago66]

Herein lies a Map of Iraqi Bloggers, who write from 1st-hand experience about what's really happening in Iraq. Click on a particular name and the blog opens in a new window. Click above for the map.

[MEG33]

Getting a redx even when I backtracked and tried from the site.

[BCrago66]

Some bloggers are Iraqis; some are American servicemen. I didn't find one Iraqi blogger who I like to read; the Mesopotamian, at http://www.messopotamian.blogspot.com/

[BCrago66]

Getting a what?

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Do a google search on Dear Raed. I heard they are making a movie about that blog, it gained great attention during the beginning of the Iraq war.

[Texas Patriot]

ping for later

[BCrago66]

He writes for the Guardian now - he was the original, but he also seems to be a bit of an ungrateful little bastard.

[MEG33]

One of those tiny red xs that appear instead of the picture someone has posted.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

ungrateful little bastard.

That's funny. What, you want all Iraqis bowing at the feet of America? Give them time, wait until they see how wonderful and how difficult democracy is. They'll catch on.

I think of that blogger as being very young, and unworldly. He'll learn, in time.

[Commissar]

I made the map, and am pleased that you picked it up.

I used a little editorial license with the names, as in calling that anti-American "River Bend," as "Reverse End." :)

Alla (The Mesopotamian) and Zeyad (Healing Iraq) are the best.

Do rules here forbid posting the URL of my blog?

[saquin]

I like Alaa at http://www.messopotamian.blogspot.com also, but my current favorite is this guy:
http://iraqataglance.blogspot.com/

[BCrago66]

I think he was a member of the former elite; not a Baathist, just privileged by family, so he's able to be philosophical and make jokes and have some critical distance regarding the fact the about 500,000 of his coutrymen are in mass graves. He's my least favorite of the Iraqi bloggers.

[BCrago66]

I think the software here doesn't permit posting of URL's that have the name "blogger" within them - so your blog should make it through.

Who knew you were a freeper :)

[BCrago66]

I got to your blog via Healing Iraq, and I got to Healing Iraq via Instapundit - who seems to be the grandmaster of the worldwide blogosphere.

[billorites]

"One of those tiny red xs that appear instead of the picture someone has posted. "

Hmm. Could be crab lice.

[egarvue]

ping for further reading

[Commissar]

Yes, Instapundit is THE MAN.

On my Iraq map, I located Salaam Pax (the first Iraqi blogger) in "Blogdad." Get it? :)

Personally, his comments in The Guardian didn't bother me that much. Before the war, I thought his comments were SO Western, SO-OOO pro-American that I suspected him of being a fraud.

His basic point, "YOU broke, you fix it" is a concept that I understood and accepted before the war started.

I haven't been reading him consistently in recent months; maybe he has changed his line to suit his sudience, i.e. the readers of "al-Ghardiyan"

[MEG33]

Thanks for the links!

[visualops]

I read his blog before the war, and it was quite obvious they were upper class, and very comfortable under the regime. IMHO he saw Baghdad and Iraq from the POV of someone insulated, and uncaring of the obvious misery surrounding him.