In justa fewminutes, your correspondentwitnesseda transport plane taking off, threefighter jetsroaringoverheadand a militaryhelicopterrumbling to life.
Joe Galloway, the senior militarycorrespondent for Knight Ridder newspapers, says that the conflict in Iraq is unlike any other he's seen — and he's covered wars for 41 years.
Mr. MICHAEL GORDON (Military Correspondent, New York Times): Well one thing that's striking about the memo, which was based on a trip to Baghdad by Steve Hadley, the national security advisor and several of his aides, is that they're not talking about replacing al-Maliki.
Over the weekend Channel 1 militarycorrespondent Yoav Limor reported that heightened concern about war has brought near unanimity in the defense community that Israel should make a last ditch effort to negotiate the surrender of the Golan Heights to Syria in the hope of cajoling it out of the Iranian axis.