Lets hear it for bloggers

I think my Global Voices column has started something here...

Linda Heard writing in Arab News is confused:

Iraq’s former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi says his country is in the midst of a civil war...

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani says there is no risk of an imminent civil war...

Britain’s Defense Secretary John Reid believes that most of Iraq is under control...

An Iraqi diplomat... told me, “Iraq is in a terrible mess. It’s too dangerous even to walk in the street.” ...Some 18 months ago, he told me that Iraqis would never fight each other but now he believes his country is, indeed, on the brink of civil war...

How can we know who’s telling the truth when almost all of the above have a vested interest in the way things in Iraq are going? Whom should we believe?

In such troubled times who does she turn to? Fox News? CNN? Maybe the BBC? No.

Let’s take a look at what the Iraqi bloggers are saying. Perhaps ordinary people can make better sense of what’s really taking place on the ground.

Too right! Now you know - if you want to what is going on, ask a blogger.