A civil engineer friend of mine, who I used to work with when I lived in Kalamazoo, has apparently taken a job in Iraq. He is currently working on rebuilding a bridge that was blown up by a car bomb. He didn't go into a lot of detail as to his location - I hope to find out soon. But, I thought you would be interested in some of the pictures he sent from there.
He didn't send along any descriptions with the photos, but you can get a sense of what life and the environment are like there.