Before taking out Nir Rosen and/or Al-Qaim, I'd talk talk to far more people and find out what's really going on with the locals - and with the 3rd ACR.
In part 2, this author managed to find a "senior US official" with the 3rd ACR who supported Wesley Clark for Pres. Makes the whole series suspect, imho.
The only other similar account I've read post liberation day was an AP report from the Saddam loyalist mourners at Uday and Queasy's funeral.
Re. Syria, Rosen may have helped the Coalition with that info.