For an extraordinary insight into life and politics in occupied Iraq follow this link to the Riverbend Blog. The blogger is an anonymous 24-year-old Iraqi woman living in Baghdad who goes by her nom de blog Riverbend. She is articulate, funny and scathing: a natural born writer — and she has something to say. Most importantly she blows away that intellect-stunting feature of war: the fog of partisan reporting.
Once more: http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/
Thanks to Jerry Gordon for pointing me at this site.
Supplemental, 2023: Riverbend went silent when the author fled to Syria but updated the blog in 2013, ten years on from the war, with a retrospective view.