:
Mo June 6 -

THIS EDITOR PACKS HEAT:

Iraqi gal who can
"shoot from the hip"
with a keyboard or a gun -

*In an office cluttered with old newspapers and trinkets from her travels around the Middle East, Israa Shakir, now 29, keeps a cell phone by her ear, a notebook in her back pocket and a 7mm pistol on her hip. More than two years after its launch, Iraq Today has grown into a broadsheet published daily, with a circulation of more than 5,000.*

:: Press in Iraq ::
-- By Jonathan Finer at WaPo --
-- Reg Req'd --

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