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Attacks on Iraqi Journalists Increase

HeadlineOct 16, 2006

Journalists in Iraq also continue to come under increasing attacks. On Saturday an Iraqi reporter working for the government-run al-Iraqiya TV channel was killed in a drive-by shooting in southern Baghdad. Another journalist with the TV channel Nahrain was kidnapped. On Friday a radio announcer on the Voice of Iraq was shot while driving to work. On Thursday 11 people were assassinated at a TV station in Baghdad in the deadliest attack on journalists in the war so far.

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