"Many C.I.A. officers who joined the agency since Sept. 11, 2001, have experienced only man hunting and killing," writes Mr. Mazzetti.
"It's very traumatic, writing about assassinations, writing about people getting killed, writing about people getting arrested," she said.
Ms. El Aroud, whose husband was eventually killed, writes online as "Oum Obeyda".
Tom Dale, a British activist who was 10m away when Corrie was killed, wrote an account of the incident two days later.
The letter was released as lawyers acting on behalf of families of those killed wrote to the attorney general demanding that new inquests be held in Liverpool.
"One shot... one kill," wrote one.
They found images taken of himself dressed for combat, armed with a Glock and brandishing a knife with "Bitch Kill" written on the wall.
At Al di Là in Park Slope, Brooklyn, "the no-reservation policy is a buzz-kill," wrote one surveyor, who was anonymous thanks to the Zagat nondisclosure policy.
HBO, which has already waded into bloody waters with "Baghdad ER" and "Alive Day," has commissioned "Generation Kill," written by David Simon, creator of "The Wire".
It was "a good kill", wrote Harvard government professor Juliette Kayyem, and the raid was "flawlessly executed".
