Check out this hilarious flash animation on US aid to Afghanistan.

USA today has a cool map charting the progress of US troops over the last 7 days.

Talking of maps, this is the mother of all maps resources for Iraq.

As I speculated yesterday, Al Jazeera did get DOSed. There is also a lot of anti war hacking going on.

One of the more surprising ironies of this war is that Wall Street Journal (print edition) has one of the most objective war coverages, while Washington Post seems to be kinda selective about what it prints and how it is presented.

Hindu has an interesting news item that claims that US is trying to instigate a Shia uprising by pushing Majid Al Khoei militia into Basra. (For those who don't know, Hindu is a staid, solid paper, not given to hyperbole). I love a popular uprising as much as the next person. But I am not hot on the idea of Shia militias or any religious fanatics for that matter. I should have thought that US learnt at least that from Afghanistan.

Talking Points Memo has been consistently providing terrific analysis of disastrous US diplomatic efforts and its potential impact.