According to a German reporter calling in to FNC, the Iraqis didn't take them to the airport, but to a battle scene where they supposedly took out a U.S. tank. According to the reporter (who's been surprisingly uncensored), the tank was disabled and abandoned, and taken out by a coalition bomb before the reporters got there.
It's at the point when you have to wonder how the non-Arab reporters are going to get out of there. This German guy hinted last night that they might not be free to leave.