Most of the folks wandering around the bomb site - especially the ones who seem most upset - are awfully well-fed compared to most of the Iraqis we've seen.

This site does not work with mozilla.

Until reuters starts using open source software I see no way a rational individual can trust the information they feed us. This is likely propaganda from the MS machine.

The Reuters raw video so far has been very compelling. I'm glad they've made these clips available.

Jerry, I ran into the same problem. They do have a site at http://netscape.feedroom.com that works with Mozilla, but I couldn't find the video everyone is referencing. I'm guessing that they update the other site first and the netscape site "when they get some spare time".

Could somebody please post the direct link to the realaudio (or whatever) file that shows the video in question?

Ballman, you are right. The video is NOT at the Netscape site.

Thanks ballman, I did watch it using the other browser. After that I decided to have a bit of fun with the old /. argument as a bit of a protest.

D'oh!

What, is the Iraq War getting so boring some folks are trying to revive the Browser Wars?

Mozilla got whupped like the Republican Guard. Nothin' left but a few scattered, disorganized fanatics who refuse to acknowledge reality...

I'm not a fanatic, and I use Phoenix. IE is not available for my platform. Even when I did use primarily Windows, I usually didn't use IE because Phoenix was faster on my old, slow computer (k6-233 with 32MB RAM).

IMO, making users wade through so much crap just to get to the video file is poor web design, and there are few good reasons for it regardless of the "which browser is better" debate.

Doesn't work with M$ on OS X either. Opera or OmniWeb get a little further but still don't show the video.

Why don't people just post the rtsp:// url or *.rm link directly?

Open standards is the problem. Microsoft tried avoid the RFC process with de facto standards - it works on their software, everyone else must follow (for a fee).

Nobody is ineterested in the browser war, but I must agree that I'm pretty sick and tired of proprietary crap.

On OS X...

Tried Safari first, didn't work, tried IE, opened up the javascript window then closed, and finally resigned myself to installing RealPlayer in Classic and viewing in Netscape 4.77 like they insisted. Get with the times, Reuters, OS X has been out for two years now. Yeesh.

I like how they suggested I use Windows Media Player 9. Yeah, what should I do, open up VPC?

Tossers.

Well, it's stock footage of a bomb site, but they sure weren't kidding about a 60' deep crater. The guys climbing all over the dirt piles look tiny.

Question: If scraps of Saddam & Sons are in that crater, how would they know who's DNA belonged to whom? Don't all three of them have similar DNA?

And that would be the beauty of it, since we don't have their sample. We could at least verify the DNA came from immediate family members. Hopefully, there isn't a mess of others down there, too.

Well, we do have Chemical Ali's body if I'm not mistaken (gosh I love that name)...

Seeing as he's a cousin it shouldn't be too hard to match the DNA of his family members, no?

True, true. Now on the other hand, if they have a blue dress from the Gap....

Hey, you guys figured out what Baghdad Bob (a.k.a the Iraqi Information Minister) can do after the war (assuming he wasn't dining at Al Saa this morning that is). AOL can hire him to explain their balance sheet to shareholders.