Knight Ridder reporter killed after Baghdad police deathsquad story

[Monkie]

I dont remember seeing this story anywhere so here you go..
from the end of the article
"Salihee was a special correspondent. He was shot and killed last week in Baghdad in circumstances that remain unclear"

the story about Iraqi police deathsquads:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/krwashbureau/20050627/ts_krwashbureau/_bc_usiraq_killings_wa_1

"Sunni men in Baghdad targeted by attackers in police uniforms

By Tom Lasseter and Yasser Salihee, Knight Ridder Newspapers Mon Jun 27, 7:41 PM ET

BAGHDAD,
Iraq - Days after Iraq's new Shiite-led government was announced on April 28, the bodies of Sunni Muslim men began turning up at the capital's central morgue after the men had been detained by people wearing Iraqi police uniforms.

Faik Baqr, the director and chief forensic investigator at the central Baghdad morgue, said the corpses first caught his attention because the men appeared to have been killed in methodical fashion. Their hands had been tied or handcuffed behind their backs, their eyes were blindfolded and they appeared to have been tortured. In most cases, the dead men looked as if they'd been whipped with a cord, subjected to electric shocks or beaten with a blunt object and shot to death, often with single bullets to their heads.

Iraqi and American officials said the murders aren't being investigated systematically, but in dozens of interviews with families and Iraqi officials, and a review of medical records, a Knight Ridder reporter and two special correspondents found more than 30 examples of this type of killing in less than a week. They include 12 cases with specific dates, times, names and witnesses who said they might come forward if asked by law enforcement.
The Interior Ministry, which oversees the Iraqi police, denies any involvement in the killings. But eyewitnesses said that many of the dead were apprehended by large groups of men driving white Toyota Land Cruisers with police markings. The men were wearing police commando uniforms and bulletproof vests, carrying expensive 9-millimeter Glock pistols and using sophisticated radios, the witnesses said."

I know it wasnt a pretty white female american reporter that got shot after reporting on death squads but this does merit some coverage on the news, doesnt it?