Troop Movements

This is a story worth watching - two soldiers are missing after an attack on a checkpoint outside Baghdad. Have the insurgents changed tactics in order to regain the advantage - figuring that they might get the media to push harder for the US to leave Iraq as soon as possible if they start showing pictures of US soldiers being held - along with death threats if their demands aren't met? This is still a developing story. US armed forces are conducting searches for the missing soldiers.

At the same time a leading insurgeny leader laments Zarqawi's death because it was a great loss. Too bad. So sad. Not.

Meanwhile, coalition forces are giving the Taliban a pasting in Afghanistan. MSNBC calls it a severe blow to the Taliban. And speaking of the Taliban, documents captured in Iraq in the aftermath of deposing Saddam and the Ba'athists found that Saddam was entertaining links with the Taliban.