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BAGHDAD: Gunmen shot dead Mohan
al-Dhahr, editor of the Al-Mashriq newspaper, in front of his west
Baghdad home on Sunday, the secretary general of the Iraqi
Journalists Union said on Sunday.
“They
knocked on his door and when he came out they opened fire,” said
Moaed al-Lami, adding that Dhahr’s death brought the number of
journalists killed in the four years since the US invasion to 190.
There was no
initial word on which of Baghdad’s myriad of death squads,
militias, gangs or insurgent groups might have been behind the
murder. He was killed in Jamiaa, a well-to-do mainly Sunni district
of west Baghdad.
Dhahr is a
Shiite from southern Iraq and Al-Mishraq, which has been published
daily since 2003, describes itself as an independent newspaper.
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AFP
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