Posted 9:06 AM by Blah blah

What the U.S. Military is doing to prevent harm to civilians. Leaflet Photos.
John Pendygraft. Military laptop.

How they try to prevent deaths of civilians, and how they decide on targets: see this Dept. of Defense talk with the press. See their presentation slides (Dept. of Defense).

See photos of the leaflets the U.S. has been dropping throughout Iraq, part of the "psych war" strategy. (U.S. Central Command)
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Bah---CNN has told Kevin Sites to stop his personal blog. Christopher Allbritton has more. Chris is planning to go to Iraq soon.

Other cool blogs by the press in Iraq:

- John Pendygraft, photographer for the St. Petersburg Times (Florida). He is travelling with the HMM 365 Marine Helicopter Squad in Iraq now and posts photos. Very personal. I like this the best! Here's his blog without frames (big screen).
- BBC Reporters' Blog, a group blog by at least 12 BBC correspondents covering the war.
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The military's laptop of choice provokes shock and awe (Slate): "No wider than an entry-level ThinkPad but much thicker and heftier, the $4,500 GoBook MAX is a waterproof, vaporproof, shockproof piece of field equipment. 'We drop each one 54 times from one meter, bake it in an oven, chill it in a freezer, vibrate it, and submit it to a shower of hurricane proportions,' crows the GoBook's brochure."