Ouch - that has got to hurt. I can tell you one thing though, they are not waiting in line for hours to fill up their tanks in Kabul...
There is so much carefully-considered, western-oriented invective in many of these (and there are SO many) reports, that I have to wonder how much of this is made-up or embellished by the "reporters" at Reuters.
It would be so much fun to tag along in Iraq with an open recorder and then compare the newspaper quotes with the actual words of the interviewees. I'll bet there is quite a "sting" waiting there.
Of course the press community would not hire you after doing such a story, nor would they publish it, since covering up for each other is part of the old-(news)boy system.