"Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead" - Leave a question for Robert Blecker or the director of the film

This documentary looks inside a most unlikely friendship, between Robert Blecker, one of the country's most impassioned crusaders for capital punishment , and Daryl Holton, a mass-murderer awaiting execution on Tennessee's death row.

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I cried as we left - in spite of promises not to. The aunt cried… the uncle cried. My parents tried to be stoic but there were tears in their voices as they said their goodbyes. The worst part is saying goodbye and wondering if you're ever going to see these people again.

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One of the after-effects of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein & his regime in 2003 was the emergence of a lively Iraqi blogosphere, including some English-speaking bloggers who have developed world-wide audiences.

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After Jordan or Syria - where then? Obviously, either of those countries is going to be a transit to something else.

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A searing, first-hand account of life in occupied Baghdad following the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and drawn from the real life internet blog of a young Iraqi woman, known only for security reasons as Riverbend.

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Riverbend didn't start out hating America or Americans, and neither, I'm sure, did most Iraqis.

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Riverbend: 2006 has been, decidedly, the worst year yet. No - really. The magnitude of this war and occupation is only now hitting the country full force. It's like having a big piece of hard, dry earth you are determined to break apart.

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… Execute the dictator. It's that simple.

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"Is it time to wash our hands of the country and find a stable life somewhere else?" The question in "Girl Blog from Iraq" was posted only last weekend by an anonymous young Iraqi woman whose weblog has now been adapted into a theatrical documentary at the Edinburgh Fringe arts f …

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Baghdad Burning's Riverbend comments on the rape case and writes that she "lost a good friend" in the recent "killings in Jihad Quarter," while Editor & Publisher notes that "While she once expressed divided feelings about the American occupation, she now simply asks us to leave …

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Riverbend: Rape is a taboo subject in Iraq. Families don't report rapes here, they avenge them. We've been hearing whisperings about rapes in American-controlled prisons and during sieges of towns like Haditha and Samarra for the last three years.

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To hell with Zarqawi (or Zayrkawi as Bush calls him). He was an American creation - he came along with them - they don't need him anymore, apparently.

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Riverbend: There's an ethnic cleansing in progress and it's impossible to deny. People are being killed according to their ID card. Extremists on both sides are making life impossible. Some of them work for 'Zarqawi', and the others work for the Iraqi Ministry of Interior.

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Riverbend: Foreign occupation and being a part of a puppet government - those things are ok. Football, however, will be the end of civilization as we know it, according to Muqtada. It's amusing - they look nothing alike - yet he reminds me so much of Bush.

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The big question is- what will the US do about Iran? There are the hints of the possibility of bombings, etc. While I hate the Iranian government, the people don't deserve the chaos and damage of air strikes and war.

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When Iraqi blogger Riverbend, 26, checked her email account on March 28, she was surprised to find about 800 messages congratulating her for being nominated as a finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize for contemporary non-fiction.

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