Salam har vært på en rundreise i Sør-Irak (det er jo stadig litt mystisk, men OK, vi tar ham på ordet, han er med Raed som jobber i Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict). Det er som vanlig fullt av megetsigende detaljer: «Gruesome fact: during the uprising after the first gulf war Saddam’s henchmen, in order to move quickly, would put people in trucks and move them to the edge of the city and bury them alive, these are the mass graves where you’ll find people still have their ID’s, fully dressed only with their hands tied.» Han advarer mot at dersom det nå skulle holdes valg, kunne Irak ligne veldig på Iran. Men samtidig er konklusjonen: «Yes we are all finding our voices now, suddenly everyone has an opinion. Everyone thinks he/she should be involved. Talking to all the volunteers in the cities we’ve been to really gives you a push. There was an article before the war, I think by makiya but I am not sure, saying that Iraqis after all this time have been depoliticized. You wouldn’t think so after walking in the streets these days. The people we deal with are my age or younger, we are not apathetic about the politics of this country. The University of Baghdad will be a very interesting place to be in these days.»