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Mon - Nov 8 -

BLACK WATCH DISPATCH -

*In the early hours of yesterday, guided only by the night vision goggles strapped to their helmets, a company of Black Watch soldiers walked silently through the desert hoping for a small success story at the end of a grim week..*

-- From Richard Lloyd Parry in Camp Dogwood --

[This pool dispatch was compiled under Ministry of Defence restrictions]

:: As dawn breaks... ::

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MEANWHILE . . .

Riverbend's family is hosting some folks who left Fallujah.

*'Umm Ahmed and her lovely children are here until things are better in Falloojeh,' my aunt declared.*

:: Some Terrorists... ::

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AND FROM SOME IVORY TOWER . . .

*Now the camp's dream-like unreality is distorting every news report filed on the preparations for the onslaught on Falluja. We don't know, and won't know, anything about what happens in the next few days except for what the US military authorities choose to let us know. It's long since been too dangerous for journalists to move around unless they are embedded with the US forces. There is almost no contact left with civilians still in Falluja, the only information is from those who have left.*


+ I'm sure that if you have a little patience, people will eventually communicate and describe their experiences to us over this new-fangled thang called the Internet.

I mean, doesn't this woman seem oddly disconnected from the current information technology?

There has been military censorship as far back as I can remember, even during WWII.

-- From Madeleine Bunting at The UK Guardian --

:: Screams will not be heard ::

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