Blogging from Baghdad

Through some fairly complex sleuthing, blogger Paul Boutin (also a writer for Slate, Salon and others) ponders whether this site--Dear Raed, purportedly written by an Iraqi in Baghdad--is legit. He concludes: it probably is. The blog's author, posting as Salam Pax, is tired of fielding e-mails on the issue, and insists he's "nobody's propaganda ploy."