Please stop by Flopping Aces for an very thorough overview of how AP and other news agencies have been flummoxed by Al Qaeda or Baathist agitprop agents posing as Iraqi Police. Those reports of chaos and bedlam in Iraq are being greatly exagerated both by the agitprop agents, and our own lazy, stupid, drink-slut hanging-in-the-green-zone press.
More on bogus Iraq war Reporting at Op-For.Â
You can also get some perspective on why I continually call the american press-corps drink-sluts here.