Ace reports from Iraq

Associated Press has a new stringer in Iraq. His reporting on the escalating violence appears to be top notch Pulitzer quality stuff.

Ace of Spades

[...]R A M A D I -- They came in the dead of night. In the four am desert cold, a gang of ten to twenty masked men raided the small village of Bina'il, systematically raping women and girls, some as young as eight.

None of the victims of the rapes would speak openly about the event with Acewire News Service, owing to the Muslim taboo against victims of rape[...]