Email from soldier in Iraq

[FlaIndie]

On another message board I post on, someone's brother is in Iraq and sent him this email about his day's events.

Hi Bro, if you were watching BBC you would have seen a burning suburban on Sadoun Street in Baghdad. We had a team head out of our compound and 2 car bombs detonated on both sides of the first vehicle out. One South African officer was killed in the initial blast. 3 S. Africans were wounded with 3 Chileans. 1 local Iraqi guard with them was also killed. Some pedestrians were also wounded in the blast. All of this happened in front of the Baghdad Hotel. It was a hectic morning around here. Other than that I am cool like Fonzy. Don't tell mom, she has rats.

He said this happened in the supposed "Green Zone." Guess Shrub was right; things are going great over there.

[Parche]

1. green zone

If that is happening in the green zone
I hate to see what happens in the red and yellow zones

[Divernan]

2. Soldier knew you could only see this on BBC, not Fox, ABC,CBS, etc.

Interesting, isn't it, that this soldier knew where the real news is broadcast. I was recently in the British Virgin Islands and the cable there caried BBC and also a pan-Europe network. I was stunned at the footage of massive out-of-control fires in the oil fields; and also of bombed out vehicles and houses. Daily occurrences in Iraq, but rarely seen on our cable channels in the US.