Meanwhile a U.S. journalist named Steven Vincent has been found murdered in the Iraqi city of Basra. He was shot three times in the chest. His killing comes just days after he published an op-ed in the New York Times criticizing the rise of Shiite fundamentalism in Basra. Vincent was in Iraq as an unembedded, freelance journalist. He had published articles in the National Review and Christian Science Monitor ran a blog called In The Red Zone. He also wrote a book titled “In the Red Zone.” The Los Angeles Times reports that Vincent is believed to be the first non-embedded U.S. journalist intentionally killed in Iraq.