Mohammed, who has been posting journal entries written during the major combat phase of Iraq's liberation, continues:

Today a friend of my father visited us. He works in a high position in the air defence command. My father started saying "you have to be more careful with those SAM missiles, they’re falling without any guidance and killing people." The man said "we do not run the system fully, we can’t let the radars work for a long time, because they’ll be targeted immediately! We just shoot these rockets without radar guidance to prove to Saddam that we are not traitors. He had put execution squads from the 'Fedayeen' in every missiles battery to watch the officers once the raids start. That’s why we fire those missiles and we know they may well cause serious damage and deaths, but we can’t disobey Saddam."

That officer was sure that this battle will bring with it the end of Saddam, and when we told him that most of the south is now under the control of the coalition forces from what we see on TV, and how the people are destroying Saddam’s pictures in Om-Qasr, we felt that he was afraid and wanted someone to tell him what would probably be the result because he was in a very sensitive position. He trusted my father’s judgment, so he came with many questions. I left them together so that he can feel free to ask without getting embarrassed.

It looks as though the question of who killed Iraqis in a Baghdad market has an answer. And while Mohammed jotted down his worries for safety and hopes for freedom from the Ba'athists, Britain's Guardian, thousands of miles away, cheered for Saddam Hussein.