The Iraqi ambassador to the UN apparently hasn't been able to contact Iraqi government officials "for a long time", and has just been watching TV like everybody else. He is quoted as saying The game is over. We hope that peace will prevail and that's all that we hope.. There was an image of youths "riding" the head somewhere.

Why is Rumsfeld rumbling at Syria (and making some comments against Iran, but mainly Syria)?

This particular armoured vehicle had a device that seemed tailor-made for removing colossal statues of deposed presidents. The removal of a monument to Saddam, started by Iraqis and finished by the US. Guardian story. Idiot American soldier proceeds to cover the head in a US flag, in another PR-blunder betraying the confusion between "liberation" and "conquest". Apparently an Iraqi flag was also put up then taken down in some sort of compensation.

Shame, as the Grauniad points out, that in Britain you can get 3 months in jail for beheading (a statue of) Thatcher.

Minor scrabbling about post-war Iraq government. The British appointed a sheik to temporaryily run Basra, which some have seen as the start of appointing Saddam's old lackeys, though the US will likely have their own lackeys suggestions. I wonder how sensible the Pentagon man is for now.

Isolated incident? Hopefully both sides won't be conducting terrist campaigns. Bad enough as it is.