Where is Raed ? is back again! posted by Diana Moon, internet friend of his. Long posts going back to almost the time when he stopped posting in March. I haven't had the time to read them, but am looking forward to. In some weird way, it matters a lot that Salam Pax actually seemed to have survived the entire ordeal of the invasion of Baghdad.

Some time ago, I saw a poster on a sidestreet to one of the central squares in Nørrebro. It said "Have you seen Zahir?". Zahir went missing during the bombardement of Basra and his parents, in apparent desperation, had made posters with his name, a large photo of a young child with big, dark eyes and details of when and how he went missing, hoping to find him again this way. That their poster made is as far as a street in Copenhagen is both very sad and uplifting at the same time.

It does seem, that in our age information really wants to be free. However, information can travel as fast and wide as it may, but it can never guard us from or prevent the experience of loss, of people, of places.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 10:40