I received this hilarious email today from an armchair war correspondent (like me) in London who would like to join in the fun. Please read it and let me know if I should add him as a contributor. My brother Tareq has also joined my blog, so expect postings him very soon.
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Do you have a vacancy for an honorary London Correspondent?

I live in London, UK. I have put my normal life on hold "for the duration" (as we used to say in the second world war) to follow the Iraq war on satellite television. My belief is that this is the opportunity in my life time to take a place on the grandstand of history, so to speak, and I do not want to let it pass. I am watching the TV almost 24/7 and there are many curiosities that are worth recording.

I watch the TV with the remote control in my hand and flip from channel to channel to avoid commercial breaks, repetitions, boring pundits who could not have been that great in the military if they retired with the rank of Major, and to stay with briefings when the channel on which I am watching moves on (generally so that they can hear the sound of their own voices) and thereby misses the tail end question which can sometimes be the most revealing.

On satellite I can get (in order of click) a Chinese English Language station CCTV-9, Fox News, EuroNews, ITV News, CNN, CNBC, UK Parliament, BBC News 24 and Sky News. Also the terrestrial stations BBC 1 and 2, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. I mainly stay with the satellite channels - with a slight preference for Fox because it is so gross.

The Chinese English Language station only very occasionally has anything of interest but is easy to keep an eye on because it is only one click on the remote from Fox. After Fox comes EuroNews, a European news station. I do not know who is behind it or finances it, but it is clearly pro French and German and anti USA and UK. Probably it is for this reason that it was the only channel to carry the Iraqi Minister of Information Saeed al Sahaf's briefing this afternoon and they left it early to go over the Centcom briefing which clashed. I regard the Iraq briefing as a daily treat. ITV satellite suffers from lack of financing and shows it. CNN is a shadow of its former self and the European version is loaded with Asian and African content, BBC is obscenely anti American and anti war and if I was in public life I would campaign for the entire production and front of the camera staff to be interned. Channel 4's seven o'clock evening news presenter Jon Snow, likewise.

Sky shares exclusives with Fox (same company) but often does its own thing, has a brilliant pundit called Francis Tusa, and along with Fox frequently scoops the poor old BBC, et al. I would be glad to email you with a blow by blow commentary for you to upload as you think fit. Let me know it this idea appeals to you and if you need any personal details. I found out about your web site via the article in the Daily Telegraph. I read the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail. The latter has a long standing complex centred on the female bottom and can be relied upon to regularly provide light relief subject to the sensibilities of your regular readers. I frequently visit the Drudge Report.
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End of email... So what do you think? He's already sent me his first dispatch. Should I add him to the team?