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2003-05-14 Iraq

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Posted by Dar 2003-05-14 12:59 pm|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Nice catch, Dar. I've been saying the same thing for a while. In his mass posting, when he first "returned", he talked about his uncle as the director of a bank. Plus, his family had a generator and fuel for it. Indeed, just having Internet access prior to the liberation was a clue for me as to his true situation. He's an obviously well-to-do young man in a nation where wealth was the province of the Thugocracy. Not a "made man" in the Thugocracy but a soldier on his way up in the mob.

Posted by Chuck 2003-05-14 13:41:25|| [blog.simmins.org] 2003-05-14 13:41:25|| Front Page Top

#2 I forgot the big one. Read his entries for around April 10. It appears that the bomb attack, the second one, that tried to get Saddam happened one street over from his house. He lives in a Baathist neighborhood.

Posted by Chuck 2003-05-14 13:48:49|| [blog.simmins.org] 2003-05-14 13:48:49|| Front Page Top

#3 His uncle is also a major player in a large Iraqi bank.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-05-14 15:05:04|| 2003-05-14 15:05:04|| Front Page Top

#4 From Roger Simon's website at http://rogerlsimon.com/archives/00000134.htm:

"Warren was alleging something that Charles and I had discussed privately often -- that blogger SALAM PAX of "Where is Raed?" fame was actually an Iraqi intelligence agent, probably for the Mukhabarat or one of its sister organizations.

Our reasoning was simple and instinctive: Who better to infect the American (and world) intelligentsia with anti-war views, especially since he was cool, hip, gay (supposedly) and superficially an anti-Saddam insider? Don't bomb us, he seemed to be saying, we're just like you. If David Warren (and Charles and I) is correct in this, SP is one of the most brilliant intelligence operatives of all time--no exaggeration! Read the entire article. Warren has great sources.

Posted by ColoradoConservative 2003-05-14 15:50:38|| 2003-05-14 15:50:38|| Front Page Top

#5 The funny thing is that I have know of Leftists who claim he must be a CIA agent

Posted by Paul Moloney 2003-05-14 22:50:56|| 2003-05-14 22:50:56|| Front Page Top

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