An Explanation with an apology

Ali from Iraq the Model has an explanation why he abrubtly left his other blog.

I had some serious doubts about that trip to the US and did express them to my brothers. I saw that it was an unnecessary risk and I feared there would be more than just the harmless meetings with readers and donors. When I didn't get answers that calm these doubts I decided not to go. As I was sitting here behind my computer watching the reactions to my brothers' visit, my doubts grew stronger. I believe that they were exposed to a great risk and despite we were promised that there would be no major media, I got a mail from a journalist in the Washington Post asking about the meeting with (POTUS). After that mail, I decided to quit.

My brothers were not as concerned as I was and thought that western media is hardly read by terrorists or fanatics. However, few days ago a friend of ours came to our house telling us that he read about the visit and the meeting with Bush in "Al Sharq Al Awsat" a widely distributed Arabic newspaper that reaches most Arab countries if not all. They had the news through the Washington Post and this was not strange to me, as it's a common thing that Arabic newspapers and Satellite TV channels discuss western media regularly. It's one thing to risk your life for doing what you believe in and serving your country and humanity and it's totally another thing to risk your life just to meet (POTUS).

Has anyone ever heard of the MSM keeping a promise, besides the promise was probably kept, not to inform the media, but that doesn't stop the media from catching wind of it. Blogs are becoming the new major media and the Iraqi brothers' trip was blogged by some of the biggest blogs in the sphere so the "Washington Post" and "Al Sharq Al Awsat" will most likely be turning to the Blogoshpere for info. Ali, has started his own blog "Free Iraqi". Go there and read his full explanation