Key developments in the war against Iraq.

TWO of television’s marquis journalists were dismissed from high-profile reporting assignments in Iraq yesterday, chastised for allegedly breaking ironclad, if sometimes unspoken rules that govern reporting in the US-led war there.

American journalist Peter Arnett, covering the war from Baghdad, has told state-run Iraqi TV the US-led coalition’s first war plan had failed because of Iraqi resistance and said strategists are “trying to write another war plan”.