Re: A couple of my favorite moments from the war coverage

["Bryan Atinsky" <bryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A few hours ago on BBC World, they were live interviewing military
spokesperson US
Captain Stewart Upton from US Central Command Headquarters in Doha.
The BBC correspondent was quoting some British Generals, who saying that
they didn't
expect so many attacks from the Iraqi Saddam Fedayin 'irregulars', and it
has
caused the need for a rethinking somewhat of a change of tactics.

The US Captain replied that he would have to disagree with that assessment
and then
began to talk about how quickly they have advanced towards Baghdad.  The US
military spokesperson then said that perhaps the British Generals'
miss-assessment was due to their focus on the ongoing situation in which
the:
"British have had to rethink their strategy in that city where they want to
bring in humanitarian aid and there has been word of an uprising of some
sort where the Iraqis are shooting into
crowds.in.umm.that..uhhh.city.umm.uhhh.I think it is called...RAMALLAH.."
(with long uncomfortable pauses before each word)

RAMALLAH!!!!????...he said Ramallah very clearly (I am sure
it wasn't Karbala or something of the sort that he said.I was listening
closely because I was
enjoying him trying to come up with the name and he definitely said
Ramallah).the correspondent was very kind, didn't question him how it could
be that Ramallah in Palestine had just become a city in southern Iraq,  and
changed the subject quickly. After the interview the broadcaster reiterated
what the US captain said and used the corect name 'Basra'.




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