Gettleman

Jeffrey Gettleman, good guy and proud alum of the Hernando County bureau of the St. Petersburg Times, is back in Iraq for the NYT.

Check out the ending on this bad boy (and the beginning, too, for that matter):

BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 13 -- Shiite vigilantes seized four men suspected of terrorist attacks, interrogated them, beat them, killed them and left their bodies dangling from lampposts on Monday morning, witnesses and government officials said.

(Now THERE is one hell of an "authorities said" graf.)

And here's the ending:

As two of the bodies were brought into a Sadr City police station on a flatbed truck, several people spat on them and one man called them dogs.