Newspapers will typically withhold information if there is a compelling national security reason to do so. The problem, in this case, appears to be that no one asked them to hold the name back.
I believe it was General Abaziad who asked the press not to publish photos of Abu Grahaib for fear of putting our soldiers in great danger from angry mobs. The liberal press could care less about rules, laws, morals or anything else standing in the way of their communist agenda.
Its difficult to understand the relevance of the man's name to the story. How many New York Times readers will recognize it or draw something from it? Zero.