"When a bomb blows or something explodes, you know, I just keep on sitting here. I don't move."
Those are the words of Wurud, a 14-year-old Iraqi girl. She points out a window to the large coils of barbed wire snaking along the outer wall of the protected Green Zone where she lives with her family.
"It's a big jail," she says.
Of her life in a war zone she says, "I don't think it's weird because I get it every day so, you know, I don't think that it's weird anymore."
Wurud seems not unlike most other teens around the world. She pays close attention to Hollywood stars and pop music and communicates with friends via the Internet. 
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