[varon]

I don't think that information like this should be broadcast in real-time. I'm disgusted that the BBC would do this.

Are you really so naive to think that the Iraqis don't have agents in place around the air bases monitoring departures and forwarding that info to their masters?

[Andy Ross]

You shouldn't volunteer an unsought opinion: you'll only embarass yourself when you discover how little it is valued by your listener.

I stand by the idea that our media should not monitor and expose military operations in such detailed fashion. The idea that the Iraqis are capable of such monitoring is immaterial. What it does mean, as a crude example, is that their personnel can go and monitor another location, safe in the knowledge that the BBC will do their job for them at Fairford.

Andrew