Reporting first-hand accounts of Iraq war

[Earth_First]

I am in DESPERATE need of reading something new in reporting on the Iraq situation. Perhaps you folks could share with me the URL to a few web blogs from first-hand accounts from aid organizations in Iraq attempting to restore necessary health and social services in Iraq. I need some stories to restore my hope and faith in humanity to cast some optimism on this overshadowing news of doom and death that barrages me on a daily basis.

Thanks in advance! :)

[Race4Peace]

1. I'll see if I could find something

[Earth_First]

2. Don't exhaust yourself searching...

I could certainly find this information myself, however I was figuring that perhaps people had sites bookmarked that they could share with little effort on their part. I appriciate your generosity, however...

[Race4Peace]

4. here's a few sites, just to let you loose so you can look

http://www.cnn.com
http://www.cspan.net
http://www.usnews.com

yeah, the basics...

[rog]

3. re: Iraq blogs

Here are a few that I read regularly. Most are up to date within a few days. Don't look for a happy face, though. What's happening there is bad.

Sorry ...

.rog.

British activist helping to get the injured out of Fallujah
http://wildfirejo.blogspot.com

Young woman living in Baghdad
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com

Blogging from Baghdad ... includes report on Fallujah hospitals
http://www.empirenotes.org

Daily news and comments on the situation in post Saddam Iraq by an Iraqi dentist
http://healingiraq.blogspot.com

Juan Cole is professor of history at U. of Michigan
http://www.juancole.com

Juan R. I. Cole is Professor of Modern Middle East and South Asian History at the History Department of the University of Michigan. He has written extensively about modern Islamic movements in Egypt, the Persian Gulf, and South Asia. He has given numerous media and press interviews on the War on Terrorism since September 11, 2001, as well as concerning the Iraq War in 2003. His current research focuses on two contemporary phenomena: 1) Shiite Islam in Iraq and Iran and 2) the "jihadi" or "sacred-war" strain of Muslim radicalism, including al-Qaeda and the Taliban among other groups. Cole commands Arabic, Persian and Urdu and reads some Turkish, knows both Middle Eastern and South Asian Islam, and lived in a number of places in the Muslim world for extended periods of time.