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title: "IraqiGirl: Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq Paperback – Illustrated, August 1, 2009"
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# IraqiGirl: Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq Paperback – Illustrated, August 1, 2009

**Brand:** iraqigirl
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- **What is this?** IraqiGirl: Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq Paperback – Illustrated, August 1, 2009 by iraqigirl
- **How much does it cost?** $48 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Customer Reviews

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    Don't waste your money
  

*by C***L on Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2010*

I was disappointed that I wasted $10.00 on this book.  It is a collection of blogs written by an Iraqi teenager over the course of 2 years while she lived in Mosul during some of the worst fighting in Iraq.  Calling this a book is really a stretch.  Although I am impressed by her grasp of English at such a young age and I think she was much more mature than her contemporaries in the U.S. and elsewhere given the situations she had to deal with on a daily basis.  What I have the biggest problem with is that this book/her blogs are put out as truth.  There were several times she claimed that American Soldiers killed people she knew.  The only proof she had of this was heresay, and she didn't go into the circumstances leading up to these people's death.  So in her writing it seemed to come across as U.S. Soldiers were just indiscriminately killing Iraqis (young & old) instead of setting up the situation that maybe these people were caught in the cross fire of a firefight between U.S. forces and insurgents.Either way, I could respect her disdain and hatred of the American Soldiers if she showed the same contempt and hatred for the insurgents, terrorists and her fellow Iraqis who were participating in the sectarian violence that plaqued Iraq after Saddam's fall.  Instead she would mention car bombs and the like but never ranted about the perpetrators of those acts.  The book had a forward by an elderly fellow who had acted as a human shield at the beginning of the war (he wasn't Iraqi).  So it started the book off with a feeling of anti-American rhetoric.  The most disturbing thing to me was at the end of the book there is a timeline of events and on September 10, 2007, this book claims that the U.S. Military arrested an 8 year old girl in Mosul and that she was only released after many people protested outside of the builidng the was being held.Now I'm a vet of the U.S. Air Force.  I did not support the Iraq War nor am I a fan of G.W. Bush or his administration.  So for people who may think I'm a conservative with an agenda, you'd be wrong.  I just think that this book is a irresponsible.  What she says in her blog is being put out as fact.  If the book only dealt with her thoughts and feelings that would be one thing, but she spoke many times of political things she didn't know anything about and her stories were never corroborated with any reliable outside sources who may have witnessed the shootings or deaths she spoke of.If you really want to read this, get it from your library and read it for free.

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    Very humble
  

*by M***E on Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2013*

Although it was so very sad, it made me think about how we take our every day life for granted.  We always have clean water and electricity.  Iraq wasn't a third world country far from it.  What a pointless war, so many lifes lost.  With all the bombing, lack of electricity, it is amazing that her exam marks were excellant.  This book should be avaliable in all schools in the uk so that teenagercan see how much lifes are affected by the mistake of war and how luckly they are.

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    Iraqi girl
  

*by L***N on Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2013*

It was a very fragmented and repetitive account.  The girl was evidently from a wealthy family however did not comment on Hussain's atrocities.  She would have known about this.

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