Back from Hiatus - Not me. Salam. He's making a documentary film about the Mahdi Army and just spend two and a half days in Najaf. If anything happens to him I swear I'm going to drive to Minnesota and piss in James Lileks' eyes.

Go read!

UPDATE: I mean, read, for fuck's sake:

We are standing at what he decided was the safer end of the Ahrar bridge. Less than 20 minutes ago there was a little exchange of high velocity lethal lead along this bridge. He thinks that this time the safer side to go take pictures from is the American side; the insurgents attacking the Americans this time are not Mahdi's Army - the Militia lead by Moqtada al-Sadir (hard line religious leader - who are quite friendly with journalists as long as you are not American). The ones shooting at the Americans here are the nasty Sunnis who would kidnap their own father if it looked like it would get them five minutes on al-Jazeera.

Oh yeah. Via Letter from Gotham.