A female Iraqi
television journalist was killed in a drive-by shooting in Baghdad on
Thursday, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said. Ministry spokesman Col.
Adnan Abdul Rahman said the reporter was fatally shot by three
assailants driving by in an Opel car around 8:00 am. The journalist was
identified as Zeina Mahmoud, who was working for Kurdish-run Al-Hurriya
TV, said the station's director Nawrooz Mohammed. He confirmed the
assassination and said an investigation is underway. He gave no further
details. In an apparently unrelated shooting that took place less than
a half-mile away just minutes earlier, a judge was shot dead, Abdul
Rahman said. Judge Abdel Amir Kadhem was killed at 7:55 a.m. in the
Shiite neighborhood of Azamiyah in Baghdad. [more ]
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