djv i know that you are intrested in info from around the globe and i like to share a site i just found with more detail than the news channels give on the combat info it comes from this russian site IRAQWAR:RU and is translated to english.
War in Iraq - situation at An-Nasiriya (update)
War in Iraq - situation at An-Nasiriya (update)
The analytical center was created recently by a group of journalists and military experts from Russia to provide accurate and up-to-date news and analysis of the war against Iraq. The following is the English translation of the IRAQWAR.RU report based on the Russian Army Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) information.The Main Intelligence Directorate (Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravleniye, or GRU) is the all-seeing eye of the Russian military. Everybody in the West knows about the KGB but the GRU has always been Russia?s primary and most capable intelligence agency with thousands of agents all over the world. This massive intelligence organization among other means of gathering intelligence is involved in all types of electronic reconnaissance operations, including communication intelligence (COMINT), electromagnetic intelligence (ELINT), radar intelligence (RADINT), television intelligence (TELINT) and infrared sets reconnaissance.
djv Also reed this article, i know you have first hand experience of combat and would like to know whats your opinin on the estemations in this australian paper
herald sun