http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/061016_iraq_civil.pdf Is There a "Civil War" in Iraq? October 16, 2006
Inside the Resistance: The Iraqi Insurgency and the Future of the Middle East by ZAKI CHEHAB
While most Western journalists report from Iraq either from the safety of their hotel rooms or embedded with the US military, Zaki Chehab goes into the Sunni Triangle and other danger zones. The result is Inside the Resistance, the first authoritative portrait of the insurgency in all its complexity. http://www.nationbooks.org/
In the Belly of the Green Bird The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq By Nir Rosen (expansion of his articles in The Atlantic)
This Edition: Hardcover Publication Date: 05/2006
Description
Nir Rosen has been hailed by The New York Review of Books as the reporter who managed to get inside Fallujah "at a time when it was a death trap for Western reporters," and as one of the few Western reporters able to report the truth from Iraq. Still in his twenties, a freelancer who has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, and Harper's Magazine, Rosen speaks Iraqi-accented Arabic and has managed to report from some of the country's most dangerous locales. Even The Weekly Standard notes that "he probably has more sources in the insurgency than any other American reporter."
Rosen knows better than anyone how much the Americans are hated, and how deeply the Sunni Iraqis hate the Shias and vice versa. He has listened to the insurgents, and he knows that they will never rest until the Americans are gone. Too many Sunnis and Shias are willing to use violence for Iraq to ever have peace. The overthrow of Saddam has proved to be nothing less than a triumph for the martyrs who use violence at every turn.
-- Michael Pugliese