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| TV Journalist among Six People Killed in Iraq |
| 2013-11-25 |
| [An Nahar] A television journalist rubbed out in north Iraq was among six people killed nationwide on Sunday, amid a surge in unrest the authorities have failed to quell. The bloodshed, which has left around 200 people dead in the past week alone, has forced Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... to appeal for international help to combat militancy just months ahead of its first general election in four years. Officials have also voiced concern over a resurgent al-Qaeda emboldened by the civil war in neighboring Syria which has provided the jihadist network's front groups in Iraq with increased room to plan operations. In the restive northern city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , gunnies rubbed out Alaa Edwar, a Christian journalist working for Nineveh al-Ghad, a local television network backed by provincial Governor Atheel al-Nujaifi. Edwar was bumped off near his home in east Mosul, police and medical sources said. His murder came after attacks last month in Mosul killed three journalists and badly maimed a fourth. The predominantly Sunni Arab city is one of the most dangerous areas in Iraq, with hard boyz frequently carrying out attacks and also reportedly extorting money from shopkeepers. Iraq has come in for repeated criticism over shortcomings in media freedom, and ranks first in the Committee to Protect Journalists' Impunity Index, which tracks unsolved murders of journalists. Nineveh province, of which Mosul is the capital, saw the lion's share of Sunday's attacks. Two separate shootings killed an off-duty soldier and a civilian in Mosul, while a roadside kabooming targeting a security patrol in Nineveh's west killed an army captain. In southern Storied Baghdad, meanwhile, gunnies killed a restaurant owner, and a gun attack targeting an army checkpoint in Balad north of the capital killed a soldier. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Real journalism is dangerous - which is one reason our journalists don't do it. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2013-11-25 07:53 |