Baghdad Diary

Wall Street Journal reporter Farnaz Fassihi published excerpts of her diary in the Columbia Journalism Review:

Tuesday, September 14
The insurgents have brought the war to downtown Baghdad. For the fourth day in a row Haifa Street, a strip of old houses and Soviet-style apartment blocks, is a battleground between Americans and rebels. A few days ago, I watched Mazen, an Arab colleague with Al Arabiya news channel, get shot by an American helicopter as he was doing a live stand-up on Haifa Street. He died on television as I sipped my morning coffee.