1:47 PM
Wow. Kevin Sites was captured, held, and then released by Iraqi soldiers earlier today. Don't miss the audioblog at the end of the entry.

For more great personal-level war reporting, I also once again point you toward Back to Iraq. Christopher Allbritton is traveling through Kirkuk and Albril, where the pot is still boiling:

"The looting in Mosul seemed much worse than what happened yesterday in Kirkuk. I bumped into Philip Robertson, of Salon.com, who asked me if the Americans were moving into Mosul. I said I didn’t know. “Well, they better get there fast before they start shooting each other,” he said.