From deep in the depths of WaPo:

Hours before President Bush left on a surprise trip last Monday to the Green Zone in Baghdad for an upbeat assessment of the situation there, the U.S. Embassy in Iraq painted a starkly different portrait of increasing danger and hardship faced by its Iraqi employees. This cable, marked “sensitive” and obtained by The Washington Post, outlines in spare prose the daily-worsening conditions for those who live outside the heavily guarded international zone: harassment, threats and the employees’ constant fears that their neighbors will discover they work for the U.S. government.

Why WaPo chose to bury this so deep is anyone’s guess. And it doesn’t seem to have made much of a ripple on the internets either (yet?). Read the full story at AmericanStreet. Here’s a small quote:

The memo reports a near complete breakdown of law and order, except for that which is dependent on “local providers” of power and security. Neighborhoods are run by their own governments, complete with their own little armies/police forces, and “the central government…is not relevant…People no longer trust most neighbors.”

This is Ambassador Khalilzad speaking, by the way.