] LEGITIMATE TARGETS
]
] But others are apparently being used as fighters or more
] often as scouts and weapons collectors. U.S. officers and
] soldiers say that turns them into legitimate targets.
]
] "I think they're cowards," Boggs said of the parents or
] Fedayeen paramilitaries who send out children to the
] battlefield.
]
] "I think they thought we wouldn't shoot kids. But we
] showed them we don't care. We are going to do what we
] have to do to stay alive and keep ourselves safe."
]
] The boy he killed was with another child of around the
] same age when they reached for the RPG and came under
] fire. Boggs thinks the second boy was also hit but other
] soldiers think he escaped and that he dragged his
] friend's dead body away.

US troops face children, and hard calls, in battle

] LINDA MOTTRAM: As we've been hearing in John's report,
] the former American Lieutenant General chosen by the
] Americans to run post-war Iraq, Jay Garner, is set to
] make his first public appearance in Kuwait today.
]
]
] But he still does not have the open chequebook that he
] needs to rebuild Iraq. What he wants is access to cash
] from the Iraq's oil, the world's second largest supply.
]
]
] The United Nations though, still controls the
] Oil-for-Food Program, which is currently the only legal
] avenue to sell Iraq's oil, and it is resisting American
] demands for access to the program.
]
]
] The UN is demanding a central role for itself and it's
] nervous about Washington's appointment of a former US oil
] executive to run Iraq's oil industry.
]
]
] Rafael Epstein reports.
]
]
] RAFAEL EPSTEIN: The man who'll negotiate with the UN and
] others over international help for Iraq is US Assistant
] Secretary of State for International Organisation, Kim
] Holmes.
]
]
] KIM HOLMES: The oil reserves of Iraq will be intended for
] and used for the purposes of the Iraqi people and that is
] just a bottom line, bedrock principle.
]
]
] RAFAEL EPSTEIN: The US has in mind the former head of
] Shell USA, Philip Carroll, and the deputy chief of BP
] USA, Rodney Chase to run Iraq's oil industry. Rebuilding
] will cost billions of dollars, much of which will flow to
] private companies.
]
]
] Bu

AM - Battle over who can sell Iraq's oil

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- While many in the advertising and marketing industry debate whether to continue advertising during wartime, RealNetworks is taking advantage of huge traffic surges at Web news sites to aggressively sell its RealOne Superpass video service.

CNN.com and ABCnews.com
The company, which charges for use of its proprietary RealOne Superpass video streaming system, has partnered with two major news sites -- CNN.com and ABCnews.com. Both Web sites have closed off their video war news to all but those who pay for the RealOne Superpass media player.

Meanwhile, war news rivals such as CBSnews.com and MSNBC.com are making "free video" a major element of their Web site graphics and promotions.

Merrill Brown
Making this all the more interesting, Merrill Brown, the editor who originally built MSNBC.com into a highly respected online news powerhouse, is now the senior vice president of RealNetwork's RealOne Services and, through Real's CNN and ABC partnerships, is in competition with his old online newsroom.

WEB VIDEO BATTLE RAGES AMONG WAR NEWS SITES

] DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) Peter Arnett, fired by
] NBC earlier this week for giving an interview to
] state-run Iraqi television, is reporting for pan-Arab
] satellite channel Al-Arabiya, the station said Saturday.
]
] ''He (Arnett) is an able reporter who has covered wars
] before and who knows Iraq well,'' the Dubai-based
] station's editor-in-chief Salah Nejm told The Associated
] Press.
]
] ''I think he is unbiased and has a lot of experience,''
] Nejm said.
]
] Arnett started reporting for Al-Arabiya on Friday,
] becoming its third correspondent in Baghdad. His reports
] are voiced over in Arabic.

Peter Arnett now reporting for Arab channel Al-Arabiya

] The newest digital players can even write their own songs
]
] So you wanna be a rock-'n'-roll star? Well, listen now:
] skip the electric guitar, get yourself a MadPlayer %u2014
] a handheld device developed in France for London-based
] MadWaves. It's a one-stop musical shop %u2014 an MP3
] player for grabbing music from the Internet, an FM tuner,
] and a karaoke machine that allows you to download backing
] music, view the lyrics and sing. But its chief function
] is as an interactive music composer that creates original
] songs on the fly. Pick one of 21 styles (like hip-hop or
] house music) and push a button. Out pops a fully composed
] song, with an introduction, ending, chord progression,
] melody and rhythm. (Chart success and groupies not
] included.) Music executives think it has great potential
] for getting tech-addicted kids to interact with music.
] Less ambitious? Settle for Microsoft's Media2Go, a
] software platform based on Windows CE that stores up to
] 8,000 songs or 175 hours of video. It should be on sale
] by the end of the year, when your MP3 player is full.
] %u2014 J.L.S

TIME Europe Magazine: Fashion Calling -- Bring The Noise

] CNN war correspondent was told to shut down his popular
] site, touching off an ongoing debate on blogging as a
] legitimate form of journalism.
]
]
] Susan Mernit
]
] posted: 2003-04-03
]
]
] Are Weblogs one more tool in the arsenal used by online
] journalists to report the news? Or does a blog%u2019s
] typically individualistic voice and unfiltered attitude
] place it outside the journalist%u2019s palette? These
] rhetorical questions have exploded into a raging debate
] among online journalism watchers following CNN%u2019s
] decision to force war correspondent Kevin Sites to stop
] posting items to the popular blog he created while on
] assignment in northern Iraq.
]
] To blog or not to blog? The controversy has helped blogs
] jump up on the public%u2019s radar screen, but it has
] also divided the working press into separate and distinct
] camps.
]
] Some big media companies -- notably MSNBC, Fox News,
] Knight-Ridder and Advance Publications -- believe that
] blogs are a new and exciting form of journalism. These
] companies are actively bringing new blogs by reporters
] and columnists onto their Web sites.
]
] %u201CWeblogs are journalism,%u201D says Joan Connell,
] executive producer for Opinions and Communities at
] MSNBC.com. %u201CThey can be used to great effect in
] reporting an unfolding story and keeping readers
] informed.%u201D

OJR article: Kevin Sites and the Blogging Controversy

] Colin Powell yesterday swept aside demands from European
] leaders for United Nations primacy in Iraq's post-war
] settlement, insisting that Britain and America had earned
] the right to set policy by sacrificing blood.
]
] Speaking at Nato headquarters during a day of 20 meetings
] with European foreign ministers and top officials, the US
] secretary of state said: "It was the coalition that came
] together on the difficult mission, at political expense,
] at expense of money and treasure, and the expense of
] lives as well.
]
] "When we succeed and look down the road to a better life
] for the Iraqi people to rebuild their society after these
] decades of devastation wrought by Saddam Hussein, the
] coalition has to play the lead role in determining the
] way forward."

Powell rules out UN lead role in rebuilding of Iraq

] LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tony Blair pledged on
] Friday that a post-war Iraq would be run by Iraqis, not
] Britons or Americans and that UK troops would not stay in
] the country any longer than necessary.
]
] His promise came in an open letter to the Iraqi people
] which will be handed out by British troops on the ground,
] posted on Web Sites and sent out by e-mail.
]
] "As soon as Saddam Hussein's regime falls, the work to
] build a new, free and united Iraq will begin," Blair says
] in the letter. "A peaceful, prosperous Iraq which will be
] run by and for the Iraqi people, not by America, not by
] Britain, not by the U.N.
]
] "Our troops will leave as soon as they can," he said.
] "They will not stay a day longer than necessary."

Blair Says Iraq to Be Run by Iraqis, No One Else

] Music is the focus of the "American Masters" film on Joni
] Mitchell -- songwriter, singer, painter and poet.
]
] "We use her songs as part of the narrative," said Susan
] Lacy, who produced, directed and wrote the documentary.
] "The lyrics are very much a part of the narrative.
]
] "I try in all of our films to have a style that is
] appropriate to the subject," Lacy said. "For this film, I
] went for a lyrical, impressionistic and poetic style."
]
] "Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind" will have its
] U.S. premiere today on PBS as part of the "American
] Masters" series.

Joni Mitchell is subject of PBS special

] Veteran reporter Peter Arnett is back on air from Baghdad
] reporting for the private Belgian network VTN.
]
] He has joined the channel within days of being fired by
] NBC.
]
] VTN said it will have daily reports from "one of the
] world's most famous reporters" until the end of the war.
] A state-run television channel in Greece also said Arnett
] would soon be providing nightly dispatches for it, too.
]
]
] NBC sacked Arnett on Monday for giving an unauthorised
] interview with state-run Iraqi TV, during which Arnett
] said the American-led war effort had initially failed
] because of Iraq's resistance.
]
]
] Arnett, who apologised for his "misjudgement," told VTM
] he was a "casualty of the information war".
]
]
] "There are two wars taking place. You have the war of
] bullets and bombs, then you have the information war," he
] said.

Peter Arnett Is Back