[NYTr] Media: Gunmen kill 4 Iraq journalists
 
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 15:44:52 -0500 (CDT)


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News24 - May 9, 2007
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_2110904,00.html

Gunmen kill 4 Iraq journalists

Kirkuk - Gunmen ambushed and killed four Iraqi journalists working for
a US-backed local newspaper in northern Iraq on Wednesday, pouring
automatic fire into their minibus, said police.

"Several carloads of gunmen surrounded the minibus and shot into the
bus, killing the journalists, before making their escape," said colonel
Ferras Abdullah, chief of police in al-Rashad where the attack took
place.

"Their bodies were riddled with dozens of bullets," another officer
said in al-Rashad, a restive northern city and a hub of Iraq's oil
industry about 60km south of Kirkuk.

The dead were named as Raad Mutasha al-Issawi, 42, editor of Al-Iraq
Al-Ghad ("Iraq Tomorrow"), 29-year-old Nibras Abdul Razak Obeid, his
brother Imad Abdul Razak Obeid, 25, and Aqil Abulkader al-Wan, 26.

The Kirkuk-based Iraq Tomorrow is a weekly newspaper that has received
US sponsorship and regularly publishes editorials attacking terrorism,
said local journalists.

At least 164 journalists and media professionals, the vast majority of
them Iraqis, have been killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion of
March 2003, according to an AFP tally of reports.

       
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