Haditha headlines

Lovely day again here in Carolina—at least it was until I read this headline on the front page of the N&O:

Report details civilians' deaths in Marine raids.

The story, from the Washington Post's Saturday edition, opens with this:

WASHINGTON - U.S. Marines gunned down five unarmed Iraqis who stumbled onto the scene of a 2005 roadside bombing in Haditha, Iraq, according to eyewitness accounts that are part of a lengthy investigative report obtained by The Washington Post.

Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, the squad's leader, shot the men one by one after Marines ordered them out of a white taxi in the moments after the explosion, which killed one Marine and injured two others, witnesses told investigators. Another Marine fired rounds into their bodies as they lay on the ground.

"The taxi's five occupants exited the vehicle and, according to U.S. and Iraqi witnesses, were shot by Wuterich as they stood, unarmed, next to the vehicle approximately ten feet in front of him," said a report by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service on the incident that runs thousands of pages.

What happened in Haditha after that gets even worse.

Here is the Post's headline on the same story:

Death in Haditha
Eyewitness Accounts in Report Indicate Marines Gunned Down Unarmed Iraqis in the Aftermath of a Roadside Bombing in 2005

Note that in the Post headline, there is a reference to the fact that eyewitnesses said Marines gunned down five civilians. This is an ugly story—with photos—and the headline gets at the heart of it.
Note that the N&O's headline on the same story is vague, uses the eye-glazing "Report says" and the big verb is "details." The headline writers also don't seem to believe you're smart enough to remember the word Haditha, which is about to become—in the endless Iraq/Vietnam comparisons—synonymous with Mi Lai.
So is the N&O doing anyone a favor by softening up the headline on a terrible story? Does the headline convey any sense of the horror surrounding one of the saddest and dishonorable moments of the war?
I'm not saying they should bash the Marine Corps, which is full of honorable men and women who serve in difficult circumstances and risk their lives every day. But when someone kills—executes—unarmed civilians under the flag of my country, they should be held to account. At least that's what the report says.

The N&O like a lot of papers is in the position of having supported the war and cheered it on until even they figured out how much we were lied to and how much that sucks. Maybe I should be patting them on the back for even mentioning this on the front page on a Sunday, but they've got a lot of truth to catch up with and they're still pulling their punches when it comes to laying out the reality of this war. You may think I'm being picky about a headline, but I know a coat of extra varnish when I see it.

So, I'm curious whether other papers in the state are even running this story. Let me know if you've seen one.

Other links:
E&P: When the press dropped the ball on Haditha
NYT: U.S. Inquiry Backs Charges of Killing by Marines in Iraq
North County Times (San Diego Calif.) Haditha series
Asheville Citizen Times: Official: Evidence doesn't back Marines