BAG DAD, I ROCK–Al Qaeda in Iraq offered a temporary cease-fire today to allow the media more time to cover the most important news story in history.

“We will refrain today from killing (many) people,” said spokesman Habib al Mal Khantent. “We do not wish these killings to go unreported so as to give the infidel dogs invading our homeland hope.”

Several reporters were not pleased. “I worked for days to get the freedom fighters of Iraq to trust me,” wrote ASP journalist, Mini Walker. “Then, just when I’m about to get an exclusive inside look at a martyrdom operation against our occupying mercenary army, some stupid broad has to die.”

Walker’s complaints were seconded by several anonymous political insiders who worked for Nancy Pelosi. “I’m not saying I know what happened,” said one of them. “But you have to admit it’s kind of eerie that Anna Nicole dies just days after Speaker Pelosi tried to get a plane..”

Pelosi, while quick to deny President Bush had any role in the death of Anna Nicole Smith, said, “Rumsfeld is still on the Pentagon payroll.”