"An Uncommon Friendship" is based on Diyar's experiences in Iraq and the experiences of the co-author, David Westbrook. The book reveals many exciting and little known aspects of the war and life in Iraq during the war. It tells of the things both Westbrook and Diyar saw and many challenging and dangerous encounters that they experienced together. The book is fiction, but all the accounts within the pages are based on actual events.

The most interesting aspect of "An Uncommon Friendship" is the details it discloses regarding life in the cities and villages in Iraq before and after the...