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Fr Oct 13 -

IQ: TV STATION ATTACKED -

Firestorm Erupts Over
Shaabiya TV Massacre -

From a preliminary report:
Gunmen stormed into the offices of Shaabiya, a new satellite TV station, in southeastern Baghdad Thursday at about 7am and fatally shot 11 people including technicians, two guards and the head of the station's board of directors, Abdel-Raheem Nasrallah.

An outstanding article by
Lee Keath gives more details:

The TV station's executive director Hassan Kamil, who was not on the premises at the time of the attack, said he could not speculate on who was behind the attack and said the station had received no threats. He insisted the station had no sectarian bent and pointed out that the staff was a mixture of Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds. Nasrallah, the slain chairman, was a Shiite - a former military officer who was jailed during Saddam Hussein's rule, fled to Norway after his release and then returned after Saddam's fall.

"We have good relations with all political and religious parties and groups, with the Sunnis and the Shiites, and we are keen to maintain such a balance," Kamil said in a telephone interview.

But wait, there's more...

In a noontime follow-up article, Qais al-Bashir reports today (Fri) that Kamil now says he wants to move their offices abroad, saying that the gunmen who carried out the attack were "sending a message to Iraqi media."

"These people don't want the welfare of Iraq. Targeting a satellite channel is a message to scare the others working in the media to toe a careful line in what they broadcast."

He said he would ask the channel's other directors to consider moving the offices to another Arab nation to broadcast into Iraq from there.

They could probably move their offices to Jordan. There are people broadcasting TV into Iran who are based in California, I believe. Anyway, these days no dictator or terrorists can shut everyone up.
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