Category: Iraqi War

With regard to the With regard to the current allied difficulties, it is important to note what some senior American officials said about taking Iraq’s capital, Baghdad. Occupying Baghad would be “unpardonable expense in terms of money, lives lost and ruined regional relationships.” Colin Powell. “We should not march into Baghdad. . . . To…

Karlin has picked up on a story in the Washington Post today. It is something I wondered about as I was watching the news at 3.10am GMT on March 19. The White House is apparently none too happy with the BBC for broadcasting 1 minute 37 seconds of Bush, before his address started. It shows…

ITN is reporting the loss of one of its main reporters, Terry Lloyd. They believe his body to be in a hospital in Basra – still under Iraqi control. I would aspire to be as successful as Terry in reporting – and even though I never met or knew him – I have watched his…

I woke up this morning to something of a gloomy picture in Iraq – at least on the allied side. The number of accidents has been growing. Iraq is gaining some small victories. These incidents now include: Seahawk helicopter crashes in Kuwait- near the border with Iraq. 12 soldiers killed. 2 Seahawks collide in the…

Is it just me? A quick look at the main US news sites, ABC, CNN, FOX – and I can’t find the story of the missing ITV journalists anywhere? The BBC has the story here. Can anyone enlighten me on this? Is this important story being reported?

Chris Gulker is pointing to a brilliant article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Read his take on it here, with link to the piece.

Mark Lawson in today’s Guardian. He makes some valid points with regard to the propaganda war – a staggering amount of propaganda is coming from the allied side, I believe little of it. Here he talks about embedded journalists. Yet when asked to explain what is actually happening in these violently pretty pictures, politicians contemptously…

Richard Dawkins is in today’s Guardian: Osama bin Laden, in his wildest dreams, could hardly have hoped for this. A mere 18 months after he boosted the US to a peak of worldwide sympathy unprecedented since Pearl Harbor, that international goodwill has been squandered to near zero. Bin Laden must be beside himself with glee.…

ITV news is reporting that one of it’s news crews, headed by Terry Lloyd, have gone missing in Iraq. The military unit they were embedded with came under fire near Basra. One cameraman managed to escape and is now back in Kuwait. Reuters has the story here.

United States Humvees in Kuwait. US forces have met “stern resistance” in the port town of Um Qasr – but the town is now said to have been overwhelmed.