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For an account of life in the bombed Iraqi capital, readers
may like to check out the weblog of Salam Pax, an unknown
Iraqi who is letting people know of his experiences under
fire.
As you would expect the Internet connections in Baghdad
are up and down, but Salam Pax (Arabic and Latin for peace)
is one of the few Arabic voices giving a non-Western view
of the current war.
He writes in English and has little time for either the
Allies or Saddam.
Here is an extract from his site.
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.
Click
here to go to Salam Pax's site.
The Path to War
Iraq's Forces
Coalition Forces
Weapons of War
Allied
bases
Where
Iraq's missiles can hit
Map of the Middle East
Humourous
look at Crisis
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