The military action known as the Iraq War began in 2003 when a coalition led by the United States invaded Iraq. The mission, which was to ferret out weapons of mass destruction, was never met, and there apparently were no WMD, contrary to what the U.S. and U.K. believed. President Saddam Hussein was captured in December 2003 and executed, tried in 2006, and executed on December 30, 2006. On August 31, 2010, the Americans, the final combat troops still in Iraq, declared victory and left.
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An Iraqi from Mosul who has been a doctor for more than 30 years kept this blog from January 2005 until 2008. He shares what it's like to live in Iraq, the relations between Arabs and Kurds and between Muslims and Christians. He also writes about being in a war zone and, now and then, his Arabic poetry.
http://moslawi.blogspot.com/
An Iraqi man, a father and husband, maintained this weblog, which was turned into a book in 2006. The book is meant to explain to others what his country is about, the diversity and antiquity, and tribal relations. It also expresses how the average person deals with the trauma of war.
http://glimpseofiraq.blogspot.com/
The author of this blog is a woman who was 24 years old when she begin blogging in August of 2003. She expresses what it's like to be in Iraq during the war, her slant on the devastation to which she was witness, and a little bit of humor.
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com
