He can join up with Peter Arnett & report the news THE TRUTH IN REPORTING

Denying what was visible to many Baghdad residents as well as television viewers around the world, Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf said there had been no big U.S. raid.

"Baghdad is safe," he told reporters at the Palestine hotel as a dense yellow sandstorm swept over the city, mingling with smoke from oil fires lit to obstruct the invaders.

U.S. columns had been "slaughtered," Sahaf said. "The battle is still going on. Their infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad...Don't believe those liars."

He was speaking within sight of U.S. tanks on the other side of the Tigris river.