There's this female Iraqi blogger in Baghdad called riverbend, and she's gaining a lot of attention for her brave and bold writing or blogging while in her city.
Alternet has an interview with her as well an excerpt of her blog entries which are being published as a book soon. just from this excerpt you will get a sense of how poor the citizens of Baghdad have become since the occupation with water and electricity being scarce and treasured and random raids by American forces occuring at all times of the night.

Riverbend's blog
Excerpt from Alternet of her blog from a collection of blog entries which is being published into a book. These entries talk about the events of one particularly bad day for Riverbend, a raid on one of her neighbors, the hatred and shame by Iraqis following the disturbing controversy of Abu Ghraid and the Iraqi Council.

A small taste of her blog:
"Prominent, popular politicians and public figures don’t want to be tied to American apron strings -- this includes lawyers, political scientists, writers, and other well-known people. Not because they are American apron-strings per se, but because this is an occupation (by American admission, no less). No matter how much CNN and the rest try to dress it up as a liberation, the tanks, the troops, the raids, the shootings (accidental or otherwise), and the Puppet Council all scream occupation."