Who needs embedded with the Marines Western journalists when there are still a few local or Arabic journalists in Fallujah. Whatever the whys and wherefores of what they actually report and whether it is slanted towards the rebels, they are really brave for just being there reporting - I think back to the attack on Baghdad eighteen months ago, when Al Jazeera gave their office GPS position to the US Defense Department and still somehow got bombed by the Americans hmm.
Watching on the morning TV news here, good comment by one of the US soldiers - they have killed all the not so smart Iraqi rebels the last eighteen months, it is probably only the smart ones left - and smarter means more dangerous. Good article from the Boston Globe here, like the soldier saying 'it's been good I have only been shot at once' :) Support the troops, hate the policy...
And another report 'from the other side' - Al Jazeera's view of the Fallujah assault, saying it is like squeezing jello - almost three hundred Iraqi police, soldiers and general civilians have been killed in the last two weeks, 45 in Baquba yesterday alone. Well, maybe not so much from the other side, the article is written by Scott Ritter, wasn't he an American UN weapons inspector before the invasion?
Okies, that's it for this morning - will try and find some GOOD news if I post this evening :)
Pauly
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