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Here's an AJ joke - http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/003207.html#003207

There has been some speculation about why the Australian military contribution to the war in Iraq has not received anything like the coverage that the American (obviously) and British forces have.

Well the reasons are twofold: firstly, the size of the force is a great deal smaller as it is made up of the elite Australian Special Air Service (which is operating in conjunction with their British SAS and American Delta Force & SEAL counterparts)... and secondly the fact they are special forces means operational security is paramount. The Aussies are famous in Special Forces circles for their ability to survive without resupply for long periods of time, something very useful when operating behind enemy lines. Just how they do this is a closely guarded secret.

However there is another more... puzzling... aspect to the lack of news, considering the Australians are the only group to invite the Al-Jazeera TV channel to embed journalists with them. A recently broadcast signal from a Australian SAS unit 'somewhere in Iraq' made mention that they had run out of embedded journalists and could they send a couple more out, preferably less stringy ones this time. It is unclear what the significance of that last remark was.

I believe it, in the near future we will hear the real truth about a SAM sight, sniper or whatever Iraq troops were deploying at the hotel firing at our tanks.

Its 5:30 AM, its WAY too quiet. gonna be a humdinger of a day in a few hours, my prediction is there will be a massive firefight at the Palestine and our troops will occupy it, BB knows it and has probably posted minders at the cameras killing the sound and soon all the video. Hopefully Kelly at Fox will come up and set up a live video feed, in looking at most recent events its the status symbols like the hotels that will be of the most interests to both sides. Be pepared to see and hear lots of conflicting reports, civilians or reporters may get hurt today if in close proximity to the enemy, they are not neccesary a sacred shield as we have seen before.