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# Is The Baghdad Blogger For Real?
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/is-the-baghdad-blogger-for-real/
- Published: 2003-03-21T20:51:59.000Z
- Updated: 2016-05-24T15:18:41.000Z
- Description: Paul Boutin (Technology writer for Slate, Wired, The New York Times, Salon etc..) posts article questioning whether the Dear Raed…
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:21

Paul Boutin (Technology writer for Slate, Wired, The New York Times, Salon etc..) posts article questioning whether the [Dear Raed weblog](http://dear%5Fraed.blogspot.com/?ref=protein.xyz) is a hoax, perhaps even a disinformation campaign by the CIA or Mossad. Using what he learned as a Unix sysadmin in the 80s with what he learned as a daily reporter in the 90s - a barrage of late-night phone calls and emails to bloggers, Google, and network engineers produced the following evidence ... [Link](http://paulboutin.weblogger.com/2003/03/20?ref=protein.xyz)