Iraq has not yet allowed the International Red Cross to visit American POWs in Iraq. The Red Cross has visited Iraqi prisoners of war held by US-led forces in the south of the country. Here is today's IRC press release.

In other news, Geraldo Rivera is denying reports that he has been asked to leave Iraq for disclosing too many tactical details of the war.

Reporting on the Fox News Channel, Rivera said he's actually further inside Iraq than he'd been before. He was standing alongside U.S. troops in a building he identified as Iraq's ruling party headquarters in a city south of Baghdad.

Rivera said it sounds like the rumors that he'd been kicked out were spread by people he described as "rats" at NBC, where he used to work. He said his rivals "can't compete fair and square on the battlefield" — so they try to stab him in the back. But in the end, he insists, "quality journalism wins out."

Rivera said he has a "great relationship" with the troops in the 101st Airborne — and that he plans to "march into Baghdad alongside them." Sources at U.S. Central Command have said that Rivera was asked to leave because he revealed tactical information.

From the BBC: The Pentagon says there are more than 300,000 coalition troops in the Gulf area, more than 100,000 inside Iraq. The UK says US led forces are holding 8,000 POWS. And Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf says Iraqi forces killed 43 US and UK soldiers in past 36 hours and destroyed 13 coalition tanks.