Iraqi forces are still in control of the city, and they are engaging in an attrition war with the enemy.

They are achieving nothing, they are suffering from casualties. Those casualties are increasing, not decreasing

They are going to surrender or be burned in their tanks. They will surrender, it is they who will surrender.

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.

Americans are now in disarray

This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra. The Americans are the people who are under siege.

The information was correct but the interpretations were not.