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Swedish Camera Operator Dies in Somalia Shooting

HeadlineJun 26, 2006

In Somalia, a Swedish video journalist was killed Friday while covering a rally in Mogadishu. The journalist, Martin Adler, had won awards for his work in countries including Iraq and China. His death marked at least the tenth slaying of a foreign journalist in Somalia in the last fifteen years. The Islamic Courts Union, which now controls Mogadishu, blamed the killing on an opposition warlord.

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