We are now advised to see US official news coverage and reports from official authorities like the White House and the Pentagon as TV-related material. This means it is not worth a penny.
We know that Basra is under heavy shelling and the British troops try to get into urban warfare there. They are still bombing the town in large numbers wich will INDEED cause countless numbers of civillian deaths. Water and electricity is cut and pentagon sourced rumours of an uprising within Basra have been counterchecked by contacting local residents and journalists. There are no signs for an upcoming uprise within Basra.
US forces still suffer numerouse losses on their support ways.
Umm Kasr is still not clear.
Heavy battles reported and it is very likely that all numbers presented by US and coalition forces are nothing than bull****.
It looks like the war on civillians has started on full scale. British troops have been ordered to engage ANY I repeat ANY persons in civillian clothes. No matter if they are actually fighting or not. Basra has been declared a military target wich in the language of war means that any inhabitant, military or not is an enemy and will be shot if possible.
In Bagdad missiles hit crowded civillian, NOT MILITARY, areas and resideantial zones.
We all share the opinion that coalition forces try to break the civillian will now to enforce a revolution within Bagdad. US troops around Bagdad are scared of the losses and a possible defeat that would (even if only parts of the invading army would be defeated) be a major loss for the coaltion forces on the international stage.
Therefore we will see a lot more "misguided" rockets the next hours, days...
I doubt that the missiles were actually mislead. I think they are fired with purpose into civillian areas to put pressure on the people and in the end on the regime itself. The strikes will be mentioned in comparison with the accuracy of the rest of the missiles on Bagdad and the US officials will claim the percentage of the "mislead" missiles is low overall. But as we all know it was Mr Rumsfeld who repeated the accuracy of these LRW´s over and over again. I repeat. These were no Arti shells, these were LRW´s with most modern technologies that if you follow Rumsfeld, don´t even explode if the target in the visor does not match the preprogrammed target. You see ?
This war is getting very dirty now and the freedom the coaltion forces proposed to bring to Iraq turns out to be a freedom of death. I wonder, I really wonder, how the coaltion forces still think that peace and democracy (their primary claim) can be established that way. Now it shows that the respect and shelter of civillians within Iraq does not mean anything to the coaltion forces.
The current situation is dangerouse for the coaltion forces and they know it. They want to push even harder now and this will only worsen the scenario in the next days.