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Fr Jul 28 -

WHAT THEY SAID . . .

*The Party of God has a copy of every journalist's passport, and they've already hassled a number of us and threatened one.*
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The following is a summary of a talk I recently gave at a State Department conference on Blogging and Democracy.

...the internet and blogging in particular is destined to play an important role in the social and political transformations currently taking place in the region.

:: Ammar (Syrian) ::

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Some of the people on the scene of the Karradah attacks began to launch insults at Saddam Hussein... [they] were yelling and asking if this was the "honest Iraqi resistance" Saddam was talking about... I used to think these streets were beautiful... I used to walk by and marvel at all the electronics stores... I wonder if we will ever see our streets and neighborhoods in Baghdad as beautiful again...

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