This is Tareq, Ziad's brother. It seems that the war is nearly over. Just a correction for the benefit of some Western media organisations: this is not the 2nd Gulf War, but it is the 3rd one. Here's a brief chronology:

1st Gulf War (aka Iran-Iraq War), 1980 - 1988
2nd Gulf War (aka Desert Storm), Jan/Feb 1991
3rd Gulf War, this one (aka Operation Iraqi Freedom) March/April 2003

Just because the West wasn't involved in the first one doesn't mean it didn't happen. But wait, Iran - contra, CIA info to Iraq, weapons from France, Germany, UK, USA, Soviet Union to both sides. Hmmm.... I guess they were involved after all ;-)