A short list of things I've either found or been sent.
dear raed a guy blogging under an assumed name from Baghdad. Interesting reading, giving a real feeling for what it is like living in Baghdad right now, without Iraqi censorship.
Tim Collins, who is a Colonel in the British Army gives a powerful speech to his men prior to conflict starting. He actually went to my old school, back in Belfast so will have grown up with experience of people being killed and blown up, virtually every week. So his experience on what conflict is like probably partly influenced him. He shows the reasons to fight, but makes it clear that this is not a revenge, they must be magnanimous to their defeated enemy. I may not agree with the war, but it is good to hear it being fought by people like this. Whilst writing this, Bush was giving a speech in Tampa, FL, to the US army the difference was quite stark.
Article in the Guardian about the BBC being the warblog for the country. Interestingly written before the war started, but published in Monday's Media Guardian. The BBC has actually started a BBC journalists war blog. Here is a warspeak jargon listing from the Guardian too.
al jezarra, oops al jazeera for a different view on the war, they pool the same new resources with the BBC, so often show items the BBC self censor.
650 Iraqi soldiers and 14 civilians die, cruise missiles hit wrong target and Iraqis attack American armoured columns and die trying. I hope that this is not the start of carnage.
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