Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

[Thenoseonyourface.com] Political Satire Fake News - The Nose On Your Face: "With regard to the AP's handling of the recent, tragic incident in Iraq that left six Sunni's burned to death, we have been inundated with demands that our sources be revealed. Of course we refused, knowing that such an action would compromise our journalistic integrity and strongly discourage future sources from laying down their RPG's to speak with us in the future. 

[Delong.typepad.com] Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal: Fair and Balanced Almost Every Day: Another worrisome sign for the economy surfaced Friday in a Commerce .well but much more rapidly, and without the same scope for a diplomatic incident.

 [Iraqblogcount.blogspot.com] Iraq Blog Count: 04/01/2004 - 04/30/2004: If you scroll all the way down the bottom of the side bar you'll be able to see the most recent posts from Iraq bloggers on the situation. Superficially, it seems violence has flared up following the gruesome deaths of four Americans employed by a security company (unclear about details of the company), the arrest of a Sadr aide in connection with the murder of a rival cleric last year and the shutting down of a pro-Sadr newspaper last week.

[Zmag.org] ZNet |Iraq | Collateral Damage: , for instance, reports that this May, "1,398 bodies were brought to the central morgue [in Baghdad], according to Ministry of Health statistics, 243 more than April." In other words, the two-month total for Baghdad's central morgue alone was 2,553 victims of "shootings, stabbings and other violence." And note that this doesn't include either dead Iraqi soldiers or dead civilians who were victims of explosions (including suicide bombings)! Put another way, "since 2003, at least 30,240 bodies have been brought to the morgue, the vast majority of them shot by gunmen who are seldom caught or prosecuted." And remember, that's just certain categories of death in Baghdad.

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, The Dark Stuff: 09/01/2006 - 09/30/2006, American Journalism Review, Cnn.com - Transcripts, Comment: The ‘suspect’ Who Investigated Himself, Highvizpr's Getting Good Pr, Dealing With Bad Pr: A Case Study ..., Iraq Reviews