OK, so maybe I'm the last person in the blogosphere to know about this, but....I just found out this week that the wonderful Baghdad Burning blogger, Riverbend, posted again on her blog in April last year. Her harrowing and often heartbreaking story of life in Baghdad appeared almost daily between the Bush-Blair invasion of 2003 and 2007, when she and her family fled to Damascus and she abruptly stopped posting.
If you want to understand what's going on in Iraq right now, and particularly if you want to stoke your righteous anger at Dick Cheney and Tony Blair as they deny any responsibility for the current mess, you need to read the very extensive archive on Riverbend's blog site. It's still my favourite blog of all time.
It seems Riverbend and her family have moved on from Syria to an unnamed, third Arab country. It so happens that I'm writing this on the first day of Ramadan, so, Riverbend, whoever and wherever you are, as-salaam aleykum, and happy Eid.
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