An episode of Frontline recently explored the risks that reporters face covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Of course to Frontline that means — surprise — covering the risks that Palestinian journalists face from the Israeli Defense Force. Palestinian official censorship, intimidation, etc. warrants just an article on the Frontline web site as an afterthought.
Day: March 26, 2003
Duct Taped Martin Sheen at Antiwar Protest
Managed to find this picture of Martin Sheen from NBC4.TV. Sheen has a piece of duct tape across his mouth with the word “Peace” written on the tape. This was how Sheen showed up to an antiwar protest where he carried a cross while other antiwar activists read aloud a prayer he had written.
Goofy Albertan Separatists
Jim Roepcke links to this story about a goofy Albertan separatist group. What would Albertans do once they separate from Canada,
“One of the things that was suggested would be a couple of nuclear submarines moving around the world,” Bruce Hutton told a news conference Tuesday. “That makes us a formidable power. With the amount of money we’ve sent to Ottawa in the last six years, we could have nuclear submarines.”
My idea is that instead they could use the money to built a secret undersea city from which to plot Alberta’s takeover of the world. That would make about as much sense.
Wonder Woman Gets a Hair Cut
Yahoo! Entertainment actually has an entire story devoted to Wonder Woman’s new haircut. Superman had to die to get mass media interest, but Wonder Woman just has to cut her hair?
Is there any gimmick DC won’t try to improve their sales? And with a lineup that includes books like Aquaman Secret Files can you blame them?
Coalition Combat Death/POW Figures
Command-Post.Org offers something I had been looking for — total coalition deaths to date in the war on Iraq:
US:
Combat – 15
Accidents – 8
UK:
Combat – 6
Accidents – 14
POWS:
US – 7
UK – 0
Just for comparison, there were a total of 363 deaths and 357 wounded in the first Persian Gulf War according to this site.
By my reckoning, the first Persian Gulf War lasted 46 days, yielding an average of almost 8 KIA every day.
So far with Operation Iraqi Freedom, American KIA are averaging less than 3 per day.