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Fri - Dec 17 -

GOING DARK -

London-based Asharq al-Awsat announced the temporary closure of their Baghdad office as of Thursday in order to protect the safety of their employees...

The Pan-Arab newspaper said that armed men calling themselves mujahideen (holy fighters) threatened on Monday to blow up their office...

The Saudi-owned daily said the gunmen had taken one of its journalists from his house to their car to issue a threat...

"The men said that they sever the heads of those who malign them like they cut off the heads of sheep," the newspaper quoted its journalist as saying.

A better explanation of the threats is found at the BBC.

:: From Reuters via Khaleej Times ::

:: BBC LINK ::

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