] At 68, he might be too old to be the next Scud stud, but
] as the only NBC-affiliated correspondent left in Baghdad,
] Peter Arnett couldn't be hotter.
]
] Tuesday, Arnett spoke by phone for more than an hour from
] his room in the Palestine Hotel with U.S.-based media
] reporters. The veteran war correspondent, who became a
] household name in 1991 while reporting from Baghdad for
] CNN, acknowledged taking "a perverse pleasure" in finding
] himself at the center of a story CNN, which dumped him
] four years ago in the wake of the Tailwind scandal, can
] no longer cover.
]
] Arnett works for MSNBC's "National Geographic Explorer"
] but turns up regularly on NBC ("for me, it's a blast to
] be on Tom Brokaw's show"). With the sound of what he said
] were U.S. B52s buzzing in the background, he talked about
] the impending battle for Baghdad.