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I don't write political diaries very much. Kitty diaries and personal ones, yes.
But I just had to, when I saw this. Riverbend is alive and well, thank God.
And wrote another post to her blog, "...
by Rosebuddear
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on Sun Dec 08, 2013 at 04:20 AM PST
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I was glad to see her new post this week. So many of us have wondered what happened to her and her family.
This post from 2003 is filled with a kind of understandable bitterness about the ...
by floridagal
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on Wed Apr 17, 2013 at 07:36 PM PDT
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Via a friend on facebook, I see that our old friend, the Iraqi anti-war blogger Riverbend, has broken her long silence . In the early days of the Iraq war, she provided a literate and articulate ...
by litho
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on Sat Apr 13, 2013 at 08:55 AM PDT
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Remember Riverbend the Iraqi blogger Baghdad Burning??
Her last entry was back Oct 2007 and she and her family had finally moved to Syria and she was going on about how peaceful it was.
Don't have ...
by Hollowdweller
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on Tue Mar 13, 2012 at 09:02 AM PDT
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The blog, especially the anonymous blog, is a powerful tool against information control and oppression in the 21st century. It allows anyone with access to the Internet to forgo the hyper-controlled ...
by nomes
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on Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 05:49 PM PDT
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I was reading Riverbend blog today and one paragraph at the end illustrated what was bothering me about the shots being leveled on the Democrats chasing Hillary. ...
by paddy henry
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on Wed Oct 24, 2007 at 01:17 PM PDT
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Riverbend, the intelligent and articulate author of Baghdad Burning , has, since the beginning of the war, provided a first-person account of the ...
by enough
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on Wed Oct 24, 2007 at 09:52 AM PDT
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Wanted to keep this up so others would see. Here is waytac's diary from this morning:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/10/22/9320/6381
Hooray, what relief! Not since she posted that she ...
by jetskreemr
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on Mon Oct 22, 2007 at 02:20 PM PDT
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This will be short, just a notice that Riverbend has added a new chapter to her odyssey.
by waytac
11 comments
on Mon Oct 22, 2007 at 06:38 AM PDT
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Anything that I can say pales in comparison to our favorite Iraqi expatriate blogger .
By the time we had reentered the Syrian border ...
by converger
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on Tue Oct 23, 2007 at 11:32 AM PDT
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Riverbend, the young woman who has written the true history of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in her blog, "Baghdad Burning" has published a new diary at:
http://tinyurl.com/32d5rs
She and her family ...
by Justina
9 comments
on Thu Sep 06, 2007 at 06:12 PM PDT
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Many Kossacks have followed the writings of an Iraqi woman whose moniker is Riverbend, and who writes at the blog, Baghdad Burning . We hadn't heard ...
by Meteor Blades
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on Wed Sep 05, 2007 at 02:16 PM PDT
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This will be a very short diary, as I'm short on time, but I know there are many Kossacks who will be glad to know that she is OK and back to writing for ...
by Seattle Mark
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on Wed Sep 05, 2007 at 02:08 PM PDT
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As the Bush-Cheney spinmeisters put the finishing touches on General Petraeus' "Report On the Great Success of the Surge", I went back to check on the reality in Baghdad from the perspective of an ...
by Justina
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on Mon Sep 03, 2007 at 10:12 PM PDT
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Riverbend in her blog, Baghdad Burning, has given those who read her an inside perspective of the war and woes of politics and daily life in Baghdad.
by goodasgold
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on Wed May 09, 2007 at 09:39 AM PDT
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Riverbend blogged in February concerning a woman who came forward to say she was raped when US-trained Iraqi forces arrested her. Sabrine Al Janabe ...
by stonemason
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on Fri Apr 27, 2007 at 10:23 AM PDT
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Watch online Bill Moyers' new investigation: Buying the War .
The Senate passed legislation ...
by Magnifico
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on Thu Apr 26, 2007 at 08:54 PM PDT
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I have been an avid reader of Iraqi blogs since 2004. Throughout this long war, I have made it a point to read a variety of Iraqi blogs, even the hack blog Iraq the Model. What has been stunning, ...
by beachmom
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on Thu Apr 26, 2007 at 10:42 AM PDT
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After more than two months, there's a new post on Baghdad Burning ! With ...
by N in Seattle
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on Thu Apr 26, 2007 at 10:31 AM PDT
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I wonder what excuse they used when they took her. It’s most likely she’s one of the thousands of people they round up under the general headline of ‘terrorist suspect&...
by stonemason
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on Thu Apr 19, 2007 at 08:54 AM PDT
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