He's real!

Salam Pax lives!  That’s the word from Slate’s Peter Maass, who reports that not only did he speak with Salam while on assignment in Baghdad, but that the Iraqi worked briefly as Maass’s interpreter!

Maass didn’t realize this while he was in Iraq, because he maintained contact with his editors and western colleagues via a non-web-enabled satellite phone.  Only after reading some of Salam’s blog entries and recognizing events that he had participated in—Salam borrowed Maass’s New Yorker magazine, Salam and Maass delivered those famous 24 pizzas to the American soldiers—did Maass learn that he’d been hobnobbing with the most mysterious blogger in the world.

Note:  link to Maass obtained through Amygdala.

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Salam’s first Guardian column is up; I link to it over on my site. Good stuff.

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