The News Sieve

- American soldiers rape an Iraqi woman, kill her and her family and then burn the bodies. Three months later in a nearby town, two soldiers from the same unit are kidnapped, brutally tortured with power drills and killed. You think there might be a connection?

- Here’s why most Americans can’t stand the media. (Sure, Ken Lay is responsible for the biggest corporate crime in history. But he just died, for God’s sake. What do you expect Tony Snow to say?)

- Mark Cuban’s new Website, “aimed at exposing securities fraud and corporate chicanery,” launched this morning.

- “Let’s double-team her”: The creepiest quote in Vanity Fair’s take on the Duke Cunningham scandal.

- Father-and-son mass murderers: Charles Taylor will be tried at the Hague for his role in fomenting brutality during Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war at the Hague, Chuckie Taylor is being held at the Miami Federal Department of Corrections on charges of passport fraud. Will the son, a U.S. citizen, also be tried for human rights violations?

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