Required reading.

Baghdad Burning is the website of a young Iraqi woman with a unique first-person perspective on the war in Iraq. I first found out about it two weeks ago when the CBC announced the site's anonymous author made the longlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize - a British award for non-fiction.

It's a spectacular site, and everyone and their parakeet should read it. I've linked to the first month's worth of posts; they go back to August 2003, just after the U.S. bombing began. Scroll to the bottom to read her introduction.