Via Drudge Report. An impressive collection of battle shots.

Btw, does anyone know any details about the visual head gear the troops are wearing these days?

Raw Video Captures of The Battle of Fallujah

The Washington Post has a website which lists each and every casualty in Iraq, in order, with their photos, personal info, etc.

Its not quite as enduring as names engraved in a granite wall, but they will get that as well at some point. If all goes well, in two places. One here and one in Iraq. If all goes really well, the one in Iraq will be celebrated more.

washingtonpost.com: Faces of the Fallen

The Marines know they are being hunted. Boxed from the east and the west in a treacherous kill zone by an enemy they can feel -- but can't see. Their superior firepower is checked by the insurgent's knowledge of the city -- their cunning in using blind alleyways and the crooks and crannies of buildings to pick off the Marines.

Kevin Sites checks in from the front lines of the Battle of Fallujah. You can almost smell the gunpowder, as you sit safely behind your monitor.

Semper fidelis!

Kevin Sites Blog: Fallujah Street by Street

] Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, 75, the
] leader who passionately sought a homeland for his people
] but was seen by many Israelis as a ruthless terrorist and
] a roadblock to peace, died early Thursday in Paris.

Let me say a phrase I'm sure we will be blasted with over the next few days: History will not look kindly upon Yasser Arafat.

Things may have been very different today if he took a different action in 2000. Things may have been very different today if he did not continue to resort to (and practically invent) terrorist tactics.

It may now be possible to make significant headway toward peace between Palestine and Israel. Maybe..

CNN.com - Palestinian leader Arafat dies at 75

] Chief Justice William Rehnquist has undergone throat
] surgery after a diagnosis of thyroid cancer, but is
] expected to be released from the hospital this week,
] according to the Supreme Court.

CNN.com - Rehnquist has thyroid cancer surgery - Oct 25, 2004

This is the second storm that has made a direct hit on my grandmother's house. Francis ripped off her car port, destroyed her porch, ripped one room right off the house, removed a good chunk of roof, etc.. She has been staying with my family in Jersey since. We have yet to receive any reports about how much damage this storm has done. The area is still under curfew.

The people of Florida have had enough. We must stop Bin Laden and his infernal weather machine.

Weather Underground: Tropical Storm: Jeanne Tracking Map

] Government experts are investigating a claim that an
] unarmed nuclear bomb, lost off the Georgia coast at the
] height of the Cold War, might have been found, an Air
] Force spokesman said Monday.
]
] The hydrogen bomb was lost in the Atlantic Ocean in 1958
] following a collision of a B-47 bomber and an F-86
] fighter.

And to think treasure hunters have been focusing all their attention on the Caribbean.

] The United States lost 11 nuclear bombs in accidents
] during the Cold War that were never recovered, according
] to the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.

Collect em' all!

CNN.com - Lost nuclear bomb possibly found - Sep 13, 2004

] It would seem that, a few years ago, the Rev. Sun Myung
] Moon purchased a small fleet of Russian ballistic missile
] submarines with the missile-launching hardware intact,
] then handed the subs over to North Korea. Now,
] according to Jane's Defense Weekly, the North Koreans
] have used that hardware to develop missiles that can
] threaten the United States.

Nothing like a good conspiracy theory.. The Rev Moon even ties in George Bush.

This has a certain James Bond feel to it. WIll Kim Ill Jong and Reverend Moon be able to destroy Hollywood?

TAPPED: NK Nuclear Sub Threat

] China has launched a "people's war" against pornography
] on the Internet, giving websites a deadline until
] September to rid themselves of indecent content, state
] media said.

The War on Porn. How many must die?

No seriously.. You can't fight porn. Where there is imaging technology, there will be porn.

Yahoo! News - China launches 'people's war' against porn on the Internet

Decius wrote:
] Choosing stories this morning for their pictures. This is
] Victoria Park full of protesters. I usually stayed in a hotel
] in Hong Kong which had this same view. If its possible to feel
] homesick for a place you only worked in over the course of a
] few months this picture does it.

Linked are a few more pictures via Yahoo.. I recognize most of them as being from the Causeway Bay area, but there is one that I'm pretty sure is the tram station/u-turn thing in Happy Valley. Looks like there were mobs of people everywhere.

Yahoo News Photo Search