Faith, Shame, and Insurgency: Life in occupied Iraq

- A piece on Iraq written last year by freelance journalist Steven Vincent, who was found yesterday in Basra, shot to death, only days after writing an opinion piece in the Times about the growing Shi'ite fundamentalism in that city. Supposedly, it is the first time that a foreigner has been killed in Iraq specifically for his journalism (although, I argue that some of the U.S.-perpetrated deaths of 17 journalists, including those of Yasser Salihee and Tareq Ayyoub, were not in fact "mistakes" - and, of course, there have been many, many journalists killed by insurgents). I think the total number of deaths of media personnel is about 60 now.

Anyway, read that article, because it is quite interesting - and also, its not the same old, black-and-white anti-war/pro-war kind of piece.