There's been nothing said here yet about Australian cameraman Paul Moran. I want to rectify that now. He is, mercifully, this country's only casualty so far, and hopefully no one else will follow him. Certainly I hope no one else in this war is killed the way he was.

Paul Moran died instantly when a taxi pulled up beside him and exploded in the northern Iraq town of Sayed Sadiq yesterday, ABC radio reported today.
Moran was reportedly getting "one last shot" when a taxi pulled up beside him and exploded.
ABC correspondent Eric Campbell, who survived the attack, today paid tribute to Mr Moran who died instantly in the bombing.
"Paul was getting one last shot of some peshmergas who were running towards the base and he walked about 50 metres in front of me to get this shot, and a taxi just screamed up beside him and exploded and, we were thrown back, and Paul was dead," he told ABC Radio today.
"He knew this area backwards, he'd been here many times before, had very good contacts, he was just a great resource for being here and for working around the clock in this coverage we were doing."

The other day there was much gloating about the marvels of modern military technology...

The US Navy launched about 320 Tomahawk cruise missiles - costing $1.2 million each - from ships in the Gulf and the Red Sea in a massive air assault on the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, senior officers said today.
"We have just begun the next phase of attacks in Iraq," said Rear Admiral Matthew Moffit, commander of the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk battle group in the north Persian Gulf. [...]
"Approximately 320 missiles have been fired at targets in and around Baghdad."
The missiles were all timed to land at 9pm (0500 AEDT), marking the start of an assault that Moffit, a veteran of the 1991 Gulf War, said was more powerful than anything launched during that conflict.
Bombers would follow. Some missiles were fired up to one hour earlier to reach the target at the assigned time, he said.

...and yet despite our great ability to synchronise our watches and missiles in this fashion, we still can't stop one fuckwit with an explosives-laden car. So, Mr G.W. Bush, when you've finished wiping the desert with the collective pansy asses of the Iraqi military, can we expect you to turn your attention to this and actually conduct that war on terror you spoke of a little while ago?