More on Samarra--and Other Things

Riverbend has a new post up with her take on the Samarra assault, the situation in Baghdad, i.e., the more or less daily car bombs (including the horrible massacre outside the rebuilt sewage treatment plant, which killed some 40 children), the hostages, and so on.

Given that western journalists these days are pretty much unable to actually work in Iraq (unless they too want to become a hostage, or worse), Riverbend, Salam Pax, Raed Jarrar, and other bloggers are probably the most reliable source of information these days.