No bids yet from ESPN or Fox Sports
On the sports scene, a soccer team from Iraq will be participating in the second Women's Football Championship in Jordan.
Nancy Grace mulling hosting chores for US version
The propaganda war against insurgents and terrorists continues to enthrall the Iraqis:
Looking cowed and frightened, a bruised young man looks into the television camera and stammers replies to questions from an unseen interrogator. Yes, he says, he was paid to kidnap foreigners in Baghdad. No, he was not a mujahid (holy warrior); just a common criminal cashing in on Iraq's climate of fear.
The man, described as a captured insurgent, is making a public confession on a TV program on Iraq's government-run al-Iraqiya television station called "Terror in the Hands of Justice." Twice daily, Iraqis watch fascinated as a procession of alleged Islamist guerrillas reveal the details of terrorist operations."
Hey, you go to war with the Beanie Babies you have
Beanie babies can save a soldier's life. In fact, they can save a number of them, said Denise Rozell and her 10-year-old daughter, Destiny Fulsom. A few weeks ago, Rozell and Fulsom, a fifth grader at Westwood Elementary, were watching the evening news when they saw an interview with a soldier in Iraq. The soldier told how their convoy spotted an Iraqi girl on the side of the road and they recognized the girl because one of the soldiers had given her a Beanie Baby a few days earlier. The Iraqi girl proceeded to point out to the soldiers where all the land mines were located, Rozell said.
That's gratitude: nothing made in Detroit
As economic situation improves, Iraqis are becoming car-crazy. . . . and it's not just Baghdad:
Iraq's Kurdish minority lives mostly in three northern provinces of Iraq. . . . On the street, drivers are more likely to favor a Hyundai over a high-end Mercedes, however.
No screwing over Grandma Millie in Iraq
The Ministry of Electricity has issued a directive that power stations that employ permanent maintenance staff have to from now on operate 24 hours a day.
Next up, Manhattan
In Baghdad, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has nearly completed a $6.5 million project of cleaning the Zeblin line of sewage pipes.
A booming new industry in the offing
The Defense Department has received offers and ideas from 1,100 companies on methods to defuse roadside bombs and car bombs.
Chenkoff's question, not mine
Saddam Hussein watched the televised election of Iraq's new president from his jail cell yesterday and was 'clearly upset,' a senior official said."
Wasn't it all worth it for that alone?
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