INTERESTING OBSERVATIONS from StrategyPage:

While soldiers were guarding the site, two cars full of men dressed as journalists (wearing jackets with “PRESS” printed on them) drove up and fired on the troops. One car was later found and the occupants arrested. But Reuters says some of its Iraqi employees were arrested in error. Iraqi journalists have a long tradition of working for the highest bidder and doing what they are told. Worked for Saddam, and before him as well. The Baath party may well be paying Iraqi journalists working for Western media in order to perform additional services. This sort of thing is no longer a secret because the American informer network is now revealing all sorts of interesting stuff.

I wonder why Western journalists aren’t loudly protesting these tactics on the part of the Baathists? If American troops, or CIA agents, were using “journalistic cover” they’d be screaming to high heaven.