incidents, US troops are re-earning their repo for being trigger happy & undisciplined.

I don't know how news is appearing in US papers at the moment but here on a day-to-day basis the headlines (1st 4 pages of a paper) are full of stories of which about a third are not very nice.

The FF incident with the A-10 got so much coverage it was repeated in 2 different reports within most papers.

It is also stated here that our foreign minister was sebt to meet Powell in US to tell him Australia will pull out the moment the war is delared won by US. Our PM has gone on TV saying Australia will have no part in the occpation of Iraq afterwards.

Street demos here are daily & getting uglier. The police have warned a student group not to march anymore & have threatened to arrest them if they try.

Feeling about the slaughter of civillians & the trigger hapiness of US is running high. I can't help feeling that your reports no longer match ours.

I believe Hosni Mabarak's remark was the most chilling international comment on the progress of the event.

Also we are getting regular news reports & video from Indonesia where volunteers are signing up to go fight in Iraq. We have heard that over 4000 Arabs have gone from Jordan to Baghdad to join in. This may continue even after US says it has won.

Doug Marker