from where No Left Turns Baghdad correspondent Robert Alt slept last night, a missile took out the deck at the Isthar Sheraton in the early morning hours. He shares his midnight thoughts in the linked post.

Alt is a little less daunted than I would be. He concludes his post by stating: "This morning, the terrorists came after the civilians in my hotel in a cowardly attack. But tonight, I ride with a unit from Operation Iron Promise to go after them."

With a little more time to reflect on the attack, Alt has dispatched an excellent column to National Review Online this morning: "A safer world."