The weblogger known as “Salam Pax” has a lot of readers worried for him. “For months, the mysterious Blogger of Baghdad, whose pseudonym translates as ‘peace’ in Arabic and Latin – and who is suspected by some of being a secret agent or a hacker – had chronicled the minutiae of life in a city on the edge of war… On Friday, Pax – a gay man in a repressive society, an atheist in a Muslim land, a lover of democracy but a hater of war – filed a worried dispatch as he awaited the first shock-and-awe assault on the city he cherishes.” A short time later, the blog, one of the most widely-read on the web, went dark. So far, no one seems to know if Pax is dead or alive, free or imprisoned, or if he ever really existed at all.