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Peter Maass: "How do I know Baghdad's famous blogger exists? He worked for me. [...] Salam Pax, the most famous and most mysterious blogger in the world, was my interpreter. [...] That working alongside - no, employing - a star of the World Wide Web and being blissfully unaware of it is a lesson about the murkiness of today's Iraq, a netherland of obscurity in which you cannot know who was a Baathist and who was not, or whether the man in the middle of the street with a gun is going to shoot you or not, or whether the country is spiraling out of control or just having teething problems before becoming a normal nation. [...] From his own collection, [he brought] the soundtrack from Pulp Fiction—the best music imaginable for driving around anarchic Baghdad."

Peter Maass in Slate Magazine: So let me tell you about my life with Salam Pax