While attending the University of Baghdad, he met the fellow architecture student later known as Salam Pax.
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Jarrar first gained prominence as the person referenced in the title of the blog "Where is Raed?", written and maintained by Salam Pax, to which Jarrar himself made infrequent posts.
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The shirts were produced by The Critical Voice, an anti-war group; the text was inspired by the German phrase Wir schweigen nicht ("We will not be silent"), the slogan of the White Rose, the "subversive" German antifascist anti-Nazi organization.
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Jarrar later gained attention after an incident on August 12, 2006 at John F. Kennedy International Airport.