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Hi there! Thanks for stopping in. I'm Christopher Allbritton, former AP and New York Daily News reporter. In 2002, I went stumbling around Iraqi Kurdistan, the northern part of Iraq outside Saddam's direct control, looking for stories. (Some might call it "looking for trouble.") In March 2003, I made it back in time for the war, becoming the Web's first fully reader-funded journalist-blogger. With the support of thousands of readers, we raised almost $15,000. You can read my dispatches here. It was one of the moments in journalism when everything worked. It was a grand -- and successful -- experiment in independent journalism. In 2004, I moved to Iraq, where I would spend the next two years. It was a raucous, scary and exciting place with a lot of news going on. But I've since moved on to Beirut and the wider region. I now report for a variety of outlets.
By the way, since I found your blog I have made it a daily stop. Will be linking to it as well. Very informative and well done. Love the TypeKey anti-spam too.
Hello from Republican controlled New York,
Just wanted to drop you a note and ask about something I read this morning…
Krugman put out an editorial today about Iraqi politics. In it he says:
Last Sunday The Times confirmed that while the world’s attention was focused on Najaf, western Iraq fell firmly under rebel control.
Later, he writes:
…recent events in Najaf have demonstrated both the cleric’s awesome influence and the limits of American power. Isn’t it time to realize that we could do a lot worse than Mr. Sistani, and give him pretty much whatever he wants?
I wonder if this is your impression as well. It’s very difficult to track the political climate in Iraq from here when you only get a couple of stories a week and they focus exclusively on violence.
By the by, I’ve been following your blog since you departed and sending it out to all the folks I work with on telenews. We are all impressed and grateful for your reporting.
Just so you know, NYC has turned into a circus fued, with propagandists on one side and grandmothers with wheel chairs and placards (pushed by activist grandchildren) on the other. But that’s other news. I’m sure you’ve seen or heard reports about the protests over the weekend.
My link didn’t go through. Here’s the Krugman article.
http://nytimes.com/2004/08/31/opinion/31krugman.html?hp
Hey Chris.
So what do you think of the two French journalists being held? I’ve heard a 2nd deadline has passed about the school children issue.
Seems to me the longer the talks drag on, the more likely the hostage takers may,just may accept the cash being offerred ?
What else could it be but greed keeping the French alive.
Maybe the hostage takers need to resupply their war chest during this ‘lull’ in fighting?
Dunno, you think al Sadr is serious about joining the govt?
Maybe the hostage takers lost an ally if in fact al Sadr is going to seek the political road inside the interim govt
If the Shia put down the gun, who is left to resist?
Hey Chris.
So what do you think of the two French journalists being held? I’ve heard a 2nd deadline has passed about the school children issue.
Seems to me the longer the talks drag on, the more likely the hostage takers may,just may accept the cash being offerred ?
What else could it be but greed keeping the French alive.
Maybe the hostage takers need to resupply their war chest during this ‘lull’ in fighting?
Dunno, you think al Sadr is serious about joining the govt?
Maybe the hostage takers lost an ally if in fact al Sadr is going to seek the political road inside the interim govt
If the Shia put down the gun, who is left to resist?
btw,
I don’t think Typekey will ever work for me
I’ve been following/spreading your blog for some time as well; thank you.
Everything I hear from the alt. press is saying that while all sides are declaring victory, anti-American sentiment has been ratcheted up a notch, which seems only too logical and predictable, perhaps. But it may also be easy to underestimate the force of some groups’ desires to see their vengeful fantasies against what they view as a neofascist American coup made tangible. In the light of no decisive American victory, no catastrophic damage to the temple, and immunity for Moqtada, everyone is calling for wisdom over muscle in this pivotal and fragile time…Is it your read that anti-American sentiment has been fortified if anything?
There was no terrorism in Iraq before the war. Now there is plenty, and there may about to be a whole lot more.
They also say that “we” are just waiting to get enough Iraqis trained to launch another decisive (yes, yet another “decisive” — with its naive echoes of the words, “final solution”) — a decisive offensive against Moqtada…
Meanwhile our President is busy setting new records for vapid smugness and delusional grandeur. For a satiric break, check out the Billionaires for Bush on the UFPJ website: www.unitedforpeace.org
Cheers, stay safe, but also smart.
Matt
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I use MT as well and I recently installed a plugin called scode, or security code. It forces commenters to manually type bit of random-generated text in order to post their comment. No more spam on my blog since!