Car 54, Where Are You? Iraqwar.ru continues to provide interesting intelligence about how the battles are playing out. It gives the good and the bad news for the coalition, as well as credit where is die to both coalition and Iraqi forces, which gives it an air of reasonable credibility -- for the time being, anyway. One bit of not entirely bad but entirely believable information has to do with soldiers and units lost in the desert storms:

The extreme length of the resupply routes and the actions of the Iraqi reconnaissance units have created a new problem: the coalition command is forced to admit that it has no information about the conditions on the roads. Currently, as intercepted radio communications show, the coalition command is trying to establish the whereabouts of more than 500 of its troops that fell behind their units, departed with resupply convoys or were carrying out individual assignments. So far it was not possible to establish how many of these troops are dead, captured or have successfully reached other units.

Anyone who has been in the military, especially in the military and anywhere near action will immediately comprehend the utter plausibility of wandering units. With luck, of course, all will be found safe.

A encouraging kudo the Russians have given coalition forces is some muted appreciation for how they were first surprised, thrown back and slightly demoralized by the stiff resistance, but shook it off, adapted tactics and came out fighting.