MORE IRAQI BLOGS: Ahlanwasahlan (includes this story: “Yesterday I was invited to the Hunting Club.. Until the war this cute number was only open to the elite of the previous regime.. with some legendary stories about the escapades of Uday who was a regular? I saw a chap jump in the swimming pool who I could swear was Salam Pax…

(“I think calling what took place next as a massage is a linguistic travesty.. Abu Raed was a man who took his job seriously… Anyway as Abu Raed was systematically destroying my body we had an interesting chat about his previous clients.. He swears he had every minister in the previous regime on his table including the infamous sons… My treatment continued until we reached a point when he used an object to crush my shoulder blades with.. the pain was so bad I had to ask Abu Raed if he was sure he wasn?t the product of the torture chambers.. He laughed at the joke?. But he blushed first!! Hmm that worried me!”)

The Iraqi Agora

Raed in the Middle

Sun of Iraq

Also… Healing Iraq on ransom abductions, Sunni/Shia propaganda wars, a new women’s shelter, and a Libyan blogger.

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