HW 31: Responding to Riverbend

For this post, I read the required pages of Baghdad Burning and came across one of the posts on page 54. It was about a man named Abu Ra'ad and how he was killed. I was very interested in the story she told about him and decided to go and research him on the internet. In her blog post, Riverbend writes that his name means "father of Ra'ad." He died on April 10. He had a wife and three kids. She says, "At 10 am, he got into an old Toyota, said a prayer, and headed out to see his family. He never came back" (Riverbend 42) . When I researched about him the articles that came up where about his death and how they are laying out new and improved rationales for why we invaded Iraq. Riverbend's post is about the civilizans that were being taken hostage and how she was experiencing everything first hand. I personally found this post to be particularly interesing, especially about the man she mentions, because it is a different side of the story. Also, Riverbend talked about how she visited his wife and the results of his death. The information that I found on the interenet didn't really speak about his wife or family in detail. However, it was more factual, similar to the facts stated in her post. Her post explained how they traced his routes and where he had been in the following places before he died. I found the information to be very helpful because it allowed me to see another side, and see how people over there were also kidnapped. The title of the website, was lies.com » The Death of Abu Ra’ad.