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• Kevin Sites' Blog - read pre-Hot Zone blog dispatches from Iraq, Afghanistan, and other areas.
• BBC: Iraq Country Profile - includes a map, key facts, and profiles of political leaders.
• BBC: Iraq Timeline - chronology of key events.
• Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Iraq - includes daily updates of what Iraqi papers are reporting, translated into English.
• Iraqi Transitional Government - official interim government site. Includes profiles of officials, and information on issues such as elections, security, reconstruction, law, and the constitution.
• Costs of War - running tally of the U.S. taxpayer cost of the Iraq War, from the National Priorities Project.
• Iraq Body Count - independent public database of media-reported civilian deaths related to the U.S.-led war and occupation in Iraq.
• CNN:U.S. & Coalition/Casualties - capsule profiles of casualties related to the war in Iraq.

HOW TO HELP

• Save the Children: Iraq - working to improve Iraqi children's lives, and to help rebuild war-torn neighborhoods.
• CIVIC Worldwide - works to help unintended victims of conflict, and to raise awareness of the effect of war on civilians. Founded by human rights organizer Marla Ruzicka, who died in Iraq.
• Int'l Committee of the Red Cross: Iraq - focuses on those detained or interned by the coalition forces in Iraq and by the Iraqi authorities; has curtailed other relief operations due to widespread violence.

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