• 12 Marines, 66 Iraqis Killed in Fierce Battles

• Saddam being held in Qatar
  Deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is being held at a US military
  base in Qatar, rather than in Iraq, a British newspaper said.
  
• Muslim Rivals Unite In Baghdad UprisingBAGHDAD,
  April 6 -- On the streets of Baghdad neighborhoods long defined by
  differences of faith and politics, signs are emerging that resistance
  to the U.S. occupation may be growing from a sporadic, underground
  effort to a broader insurrection by militiamen who claim to be fighting
  in the name of their common faith, Islam.
  
• Fallujah security situation worseningThis
  link is a transcript from an Australian station. It's worth a read, if
  only to get an idea of how chaotic things must be in Iraq right now.
  
• Nader calls for Bush to be impeached over Iraq war

• Bill O'Reilly says we should get out of Iraq.

• And finally, President Bush will be on vacation for the rest of the week:
  

  "MR. McCLELLAN: It will be after his remarks, before
  departing the community college. Then the President makes remarks in
  Charlotte at a Bush-Cheney 2004 luncheon. Then we depart for St. Louis.
  And in St. Louis, the President looks forward to throwing out the
  opening day pitch for this game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the
  Milwaukee Brewers. Following the opening pitch, the President will also
  participate in a live interview with Fox Sports Midwest. And then he
  will also participate in an interview with Mike Shannon, who is the
  co-anchor for Cardinals baseball on KMOX. And then we go to Crawford for the rest of the week."

I just learned the following on coverage of Operation Vigilant Resolve:

Because of the danger and the nature of the operation (the closing off of the roads, etc.)

Coverage has been assigned to a small embedded "pool" of reporters.

(When a "pool system" is in effect, those selected reporters agree to share their raw data/notes/reporting with everyone else.)

MSNBC played a phone message from one (so in effect they admit that they do not have anyone on the scene):

Lourdes Navarro of the Associated Press."