<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1141" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#008000 size=2>is nothing sacred?   imagine a representative of the nation of the car gods shooting at cars.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#008000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#008000 size=2>think he'd shoot at a corvette or a dodge viper?   a beamer or a cadillac SUV?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#008000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#008000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#008000 size=2>R</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #008000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=philion@hawaii.edu href="mailto:philion@hawaii.edu">steve philion</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lists.panix.com href="mailto:lbo-talk@lists.panix.com">lbo-talk@lists.panix.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, March 29, 2003 7:07 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> car drivers are now the enemy</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Central Iraq :: Gavin Hewitt :: 1430GMT<BR><BR>We are stalled on the highway at the moment but the biggest news today was<BR>when the radios crackled into life reporting an explosion further up the<BR>road at an American military checkpoint.<BR><BR>We were told a taxi stopped and when American soldiers approached it, it<BR>exploded and there were casualties.<BR><BR>There has been a lot of talk amongst the soldiers as this signifies<BR>something they didn't expect here - suicide bombers.<BR><BR>Already one commander has said to me: "If I see any civilian vehicle on this<BR>highway, either it gets off the highway or we shoot it off the highway". It<BR>does lend support to the feeling that these troops are a little bit<BR>embattled and that it's not going quite the way they imagined.<BR><A href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/world/2003/reporters_log/default.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/world/2003/reporters_log/default.stm</A><BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>