With respect to why we would leave Baghdad Bob on the air... remember we captured an Iraqi Colonel who was a forward lookout at the Baghdad airport a few days ago? He was found in a foxhole/bunker between the two runways. He was spotting for artillery crews.
He is now our EPW, and being held in a hangar at the airport. From a Sky article:
A captured Iraqi colonel being held in one of the hangars listened in astonishment as his information minister praised Republican Guard soldiers for recapturing the airport.
He looked at his captors and, as he realised that what he had heard was palpably untrue, his eye filled with tears. Turning to a translator, he asked: "How long have they been lying like this?"
Full article at: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/waroniraq/articles/4227725
Stealing cars, chairs, rugs, furniture, guns, anything and everything that isn't nailed down is walking today.
I mentioned in yesterday's thread that I beieve we are keeping him on by design,
We could have taken him out days ago.
I think we will use him at a start of liason in communication w/people..