Friday, October 13

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Fr Oct 13 -

MORE MASSACRE FALLOUT -

The horror and revulsion toward the cold-blooded psychopaths who slaughtered the Shaabiya TV station personnel have reverberated across the Middle East and even further abroad.

USAToday called it "the single deadliest attack on the media since the start of the war."

The CPJ called it "a barbaric attack" and "expressed outrage at the cold-blooded execution by masked gunmen of 11 employees of a fledgling satellite TV channel in Baghdad."

There were other Media attacks in Iraq as well:

The body of Kurdish reporter Azad Mohammed Hussein, 29, has been identified at the Baghdad morgue. He was kidnapped Oct 3 while on his way to Dar al-Salam radio HQ. His body was found Tuesday.

And the latest Media worker kidnapping is the editor of weekly magazine Nabd al-Shabab, who was abducted Monday on the way to work.

More Murder & Mayhem: *In Hillah, about 60 miles south of Baghdad, a bomb appeared to have been planted under Col Salam al-Maamouri's chair or desk. He was the commander of the Scorpion police battalion with offices inside the Interior Ministry.* An inside job is suspected.
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