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The US military discontinued patrols in Iraq's cities at the end of June last year. As far as the network nightly newscasts were concerned that might as well have been the end of the story. In the eight months since then there have been just three reports filed with a Baghdad dateline (and one of those focused on Afghanistan) and zero from elsewhere in Iraq. So it was a surprise to see Elizabeth Palmer in Baghdad for CBS ahead of Sunday's parliamentary elections filing a fourth: "Election fever here is tempered by election fear. Everyone remembers the huge truck bombs last fall in the heart of Baghdad that killed more than 150 people." Sure enough, bombs hit police stations and a hospital in the city of Baquba, killing more than two dozen people.
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