According to this report, American and British troops are bonding over a beverage – tea, naturally, not Dr Pepper. Strangely, the Yanks have not yet been offered Marmite, Jonah, but that time will doubtless come. Then there’s this detail:

“But the difficult times have been leavened by the banter. HMI Barry Hurt says the British sense of humour kills him. “1 Para has a chicken and a monkey – men who run around in chicken and monkey suits. No one in command knows who it is.”

I just hope that it’s not Saddam.