Paul Boutin (Technology writer for Slate, Wired, The New York Times, Salon etc..) posts article questioning whether the Dear Raed weblog 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