Steven Vincent assassinated - Warning Graphic

[dArKeR]

An Iraqi police officer is seen with the body of killed US journalist Steven Vincent, 50, at the morgue in the southern city of Basra, 500km from Baghdad.
PHOTO: AFP

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/photo/2005/08/04/2005040114
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/08/04/2003266375

[longship]

1. Is there a reason why you're posting this twice?

Is there a reason why you post everything twice?

[LiviaOlivia]

3. Many people

crosspost in different forums.

[Carolab]

2. I think it's good--I didn't see it yet

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His death came four days after publication in the New York Times of an opinion piece he wrote critical of the increasing influence of Shi'ite Islamist parties in the southern city of Basra, Iraq's second city and the subject of his next book.

"Basra was clearly his favorite place in Iraq," Muncy said, adding that Vincent had studied the security situation carefully before going there some three months ago to research the book. "He honestly didn't think, and I did not either, that something like this would happen," Muncy said.

Steve Mumford, an American artist who shared an apartment with Vincent in Baghdad in 2003, said Vincent had told him in an e-mail some weeks ago he had a lot of information he knew could get him killed if it was published.

"He probably could have waited until he left. All I can think is he felt he had to get it out as soon as possible," Mumford said, adding that this was Vincent's third visit to Iraq and he had been due to leave soon.

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http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2005-08-03T175737Z_01_N03714248_RTRIDST_0_USREPORT-IRAQ-JOURNALIST-PROFILE-DC.XML

[ugarte]

4. Probably the same cop who shot him

Democracy is messy.