Centcom confirms another death.

After a week of fighting, two Marine battalions have managed to occupy only a fraction of the restive western city and at a cost of more than a dozen Marines and reportedly many civilians killed. Kimmitt said a third Marine battalion has now been added to the force in Fallujah.

Berlusconi made a surpise visit to Iraq and the Italian troops there.

The director of the Iraqi Red Crescent in the Kurdish city of Irbil and his wife have been found dead. In the south Saturday, the militia of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr remained in control of Karbala and nearby Najaf and Kufa. In Baqouba, northeast of the capital, gunmen attacked government buildings and police stations, fighting U.S. troops in battles that killed around 40 Iraqis and wounded several Americans, said Capt. Issam Bornales, spokesman for the 1st Infantry Division's 3rd Brigade.

A soldier who has served in Iraq has the final word on mercenaries.

The Blogging of the President has a very good suggestion. Sign the petition. I just did.

Good article up in the NYTimes about hostage taking.

Negotiators entered Fallujah today to conduct cease-fire talks.

U.S. military not confident anymore of capturing bin Laden this year. Nope, Iraq is not a distraction. Really, it's not.

One airman was killed and two wounded in a mortar attack on a U.S. airbase north of Baghdad on Saturday, the U.S. army said in a statement.

Teenage gunmen shot at U.S. troops from alleys in northwest Baghdad's Sunni Muslim Adhimiya district. An Iraqi group told Al Arabiya television it was holding 30 foreign hostages and threatened to behead them unless U.S. forces lift a blockade of Falluja. The Pentagon said two U.S. soldiers and an unknown number of civilian contractors were missing after an attack on a military fuel convoy in Abu Ghraib, just west of Baghdad on Friday. Two German Security Guards are also missing. U.S. tank was set on fire on a highway west of Baghdad on Saturday and locals said it had been hit by a rocket-propelled grenade fired by a 10-year-old boy.

Several blasts rang out around Baghdad Saturday and a column of smoke was seen rising fromt he Green Zone.

President Vacation vows that the rebels would be defeated. Kos has a reminder of exactly what President Vacation's repsonse to al Qaeda was.

A major international oil conference set to be held in Basra has been cancelled indefinitely.