On the way into the office, I heard this on a NYC radio station: Overnight, the U.S. took out Arab media–including the Arabic Al-Jazeera and Abu Dabi television networks–in order to stop the Iraqi message from going out to the Arab world. That was it. And that is what the world probably believes. And….if the Iraqis happened to be behind the sniper at the Palestine hotel, that’s exactly what they were hoping for.