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An extensive LA TIMES article today discusses Salam Pax’ weblog, and also refers to the blogs Live From Kuwait, L.T. Smash, and Command Post.
It describes the efforts of journalist Paul Boutin to determine its authenticity.
A few days after the U.S.-led bombing of Baghdad began, the words of a mysterious man known as Salam Pax raced across the Internet.[.....]
In an effort to uncover obvious deception, freelance journalist Boutin, a former network manager, began a search for the real Salam Pax.
He asked the Baghdad resident by e-mail for a photo or a phone number. Salam Pax refused.
He then attempted to trace the origin of the electronic information sent by Salam Pax’s Web address.
While Boutin did not have enough information to pinpoint Salam Pax’s location, he said the computer addresses he was able to trace were in the same range as those previously used by Uruklink, Iraq’s state-run Internet provider. Another electronic trace followed Salam Pax’s postings as far as Transtrum, a unit of the Lebanese Internet provider TerraNet.
Absent any obvious ruse, the blog seemed plausible, Boutin said.
