Both Time and Newsweek lead this week with the Cheney shooting incident, but thanks to the vagaries of the newsweekly publishing cycle, both magazines landed on doorsteps a full nine days after the event in question — well after the issue had been chewed over by multitudes for days on end.

Fortunately, however, each publication has a vigorous Web site that was all over the story last week, rendering their dead tree editions, at least in this case, moot.

In news we haven’t seen everywhere else, U.S. News & World Report takes a look at a story that only gets a cursory treatment in the American press, the continued small-scale violence and murder happening in Iraq — specifically, in Baghdad neighborhoods. While car bombings have become the norm in our morning headlines, many more Iraqis are being kidnapped and murdered on a daily basis. “Baghdad’s city morgue,” says reporter Ben Gilbert, according to the United Nations, processed 1,673 bodies in the last two months of 2005, of which 1,034 had bullet wounds. “That’s in a city of about 5 million — or nearly two-thirds the size of New York, which had 94 homicides in the same period.”

According to “Sunni leaders” Gilbert spoke to, “communities are being terrorized by the Iraqi police, Army, and allied militias. In a predawn raid in a Sunni neighborhood last week, Iraqi authorities broke windows, grabbed computers, took cars, and hauled away, without explanation, 13 males between the ages of 15 and 60. Family members weren’t told where the men were being taken and fear they will turn up dead.” Part of the problem is that it’s hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys. “Iraqi police and soldiers wear black ski masks and balaclavas...

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