Posted on 03/23/2003 9:50:37 PM PST by FreedomFlyer
A Weblog, The Command Post, is linking stories about the War, often running over 20 an hour.
Here are some recent stories. For links and more recent stories, click on the source URL above.
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====12:41 AM | Israeli reporter faces roadblocks Caroline Glick - a senior reporter for the Jerusalem Post - had to pass through Kuwait to get to the front in Iraq. Kuwait had issued a statement to the international press corps that anyone transmitting reports to the Israeli media would face criminal prosecution.
Read what Glick had to go through to take her rightful place alongside other international correspondents in Iraq. She ends with this observation:
. . . Kuwait hates the Palestinians. The Kuwaitis kicked the Palestinians out of their country. The way I was treated had nothing to do with Beit El or Netzarim. It has to do with Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem and the Bible.
As I joined the 2-7 mechanized infantry battalion on Tuesday night, I realized that it was the first time I had felt safe in 48 hours. On Sunday afternoon, as I felt my body melting in the oppressive desert heat and its odor borne of five days in the heat and dust and wind without a shower wafted into my nostrils and shocked me, I understood how I would know when peace has come.
Peace will be upon us when I can feel as safe and welcome at a five-star Kuwaiti hotel as I felt in the Kuwaiti desert with the US army.
==== 12:36 AM | Euro TV shows POW video Agence France Presse reports that European television services, including Sky News (Fox's sister channel in Europe, owned by Rupert Murdoch), as well as German, French, Belgian, Dutch, Swedish, and Portuguese television, have showed various parts of the tapes of U.S. POWs in Iraqi hands. Some are trying to keep the humiliating or gruesome parts out of their broadcasts.
Continue reading "Euro TV shows POW video"
==== 12:29 AM | Life as a POW This is what our heros has to look forward too.
It's not a pleasant read.
==== 12:23 AM | US & UK joined by mighty new ally Uganda is ready to assist "in any way possible." Saddam, beware! (From FARK.)
==== 12:22 AM | The mindlessness of the BBC Rand Simberg and commentors on a particularly smug and plummy and out-of-touch with reality BBC program on the war, and other sorry excuses for news programming. (via Sullivan, who has been aghast at the BBC for some time now).
==== 12:22 AM | Iraqi battlefield tactics AP reports that the backbone of Iraqi resistance is made up of Fedayeen Saddam, who are operatives that report directly to one of Saddam's sons. They use tactics such as fake surrenders and troops in civilian clothing, and also keep Iraqi soldiers from defecting.
Saddam is known to be an admirer and student of Stalin. This sounds like his NKVD.
==== 12:12 AM | More Chemicals? MSNBC is now reporting a second chemical weapons site has been discovered and is being inspected.
==== 12:05 AM | Quickie roundup That's what the IHT has here. It includes a list of Iraqi claims and allied responses.
==== 12:05 AM | Latest from NBC Chemicals possibly found. Reports from Iraq unconfirmed. U.S. missiles land in Turkey. Officials confirm misfire.
==== 12:00 AM | MORE ON AL-JAZEERA PICTURES Details on The Frog.
==== 11:59 PM | Turkey denies troops sent to Northern Iraq Turkey is denying reports that Turkish troops have actually entered Northern Iraq, but say they still plan on doing so. There are mixed reports on whether an agreement has been reached between the US and Turkey that would allow Turkish troops in Iraq but limit them to a short distance from the border. Be wary of reports either way for the next few days (especially in this age when most news stories are regurgitations of wire stories and are usually not independently researched) until enough time has passed for the truth to surface.
Meanwhile, US forces are about a day from Baghdad and several thousand US troops have moved into Northern Iraq.
==== 11:59 PM | Ba'ath Party HQ CNN's Jason Bellini, with the US Marine EU/15th Artillery, is now reporting that that the Iraqi Ba'ath Party HQ has been captured.
==== 11:56 PM | I'm resisting the urge to provide commentary Latest Fisk.
Continue reading "I'm resisting the urge to provide commentary"
==== 11:56 PM | "Value Added" InstaPundit Reynolds sees bloggers acting as a fact-checking force. "The value we add is in unpacking the spin in the media coverage," he says.
I think that's an important precept. It's a damned fine line, but one worth trying to walk.
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