Iraqi blogger taken away by Mukhabarat

From Patriot Daily comes word via Bellaciao that blogger Khalid Jarrar has been taken to an undisclosed location by the Iraqi Secret Service, the Mukhabarat. Jarrar has not been charged with a crime, as far as anyone knows, but it is assumed he is a person of interest because he writes regularly about the reality of life in Iraq in his blog, Tell Me a Secret.

Here are some excerpts from a blog post by Jarrar titled "Not Again!":

I got home yesterday to find that a car-bomb exploded just couple of hours before, about 100 meter away only from our house. I entered the house and saw the pieces of glass and decorations on the ground...

"Not again!" I told myself.

I checked on the neighbors to see if they all were alright, and then went to the explosion site, in front of one of the most poplar markets in the area, one Iraqi woman died, few injured and many cars were burned, and heaps of broken glass shrapnel on the ground around the site.

This is another frightening example of how we have "liberated" the Iraqi people, and how we are teaching them American values. Sadly, under the current administration, these are American values. From establishing "free speech zones" to monitoring students' T-shirt slogans to forcibly removing people from Bush rallies. From refusing to discuss urgent events on the evening news to stealing election signs from people's yards to banning political art from exhibitions--this is America.

You may go here to help Khalid Jarrar.