The Anxiety Starts The Moment You Wake.

The Times of London has an interesting first hand account of life in Baghdad from the perspective of a half Shia, half Sunni employee of the paper.

Like most Baghdadis, I've lost count of the people I know who have been killed or wounded. My local grocer vanished two weeks ago when a suicide bomber walked into the cafe where he was eating. They found only his shoes and phone. I now have to venture further afield to shop for my mother and sisters, a dangerous chore in a city where death squads drive past shops and gun down storekeepers and customers alike.

Read it.