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09 April 2003: "Fall of Baghdad"

"Cautious jubilation," I think, best sums up my current mood. Ideally, I'd hope for everyone who dropped the term "Stalingrad" into the soi-disant "expert opinion" over the past couple of weeks to have the decency to keep their ignorance to themselves. But I'm not holding my breath; overly dramatic predictions of doom about "Fortress Tikrit" are next, I expect.

In the meantime, I read that US troops emptied several jails in their drive to the city centre. "Emptied several jails"? How can this be? After all, the Iraqi government emptied the jails last October, didn't they? The Revolutionary Command Council decreed a "general, comprehensive, and final pardon", didn't they? Interestingly, this blanket amnesty does not seem to have applied to the inmates of that children's prison liberated by the 5th Marine Regt. yesterday.

Of course, the pardon was announced by Iraqi Information Minister, Mohammed Said "It's All Part of Our Plan" al-Sahhaf, which tells you how reliable that info is.

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