Trying to be fair and balanced

Since I posted a reference to a piece in the U.K.'s Independent the other day suggesting that the battle near Najaf might have been a massacre of innocent civilians, I felt I should post this comment at Juan Cole's site suggesting the opposite:

This Reuters photograph of a burned out, captured truck belonging to the cult shows that it is mounted with an anti-aircraft battery! So much for the story that Najaf authorities just suddenly fell on innocent noncombatants. Now the other question is, where in blazes did they get an anti-aircraft weapon?