Reply #15: And... "Newspaper Editor Fatally Shot in Mosul" [View All]

[Rose Siding]

MOSUL, Iraq -- An editor of an Iraqi weekly newspaper was shot and killed Tuesday on the roof of his office's building, police said. His daughter said he had been threatened because of his writings.

Two men followed Ahmed Shawkat, editor of the independent "Without Direction," to the roof -- where he went to make a phone call -- and one of them shot him, police said.
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"He used to write against the resistance, against the Americans, against the local government and the former government. He had integrity," the daughter said. "Obviously some people didn't like the fact that he ... had a view and a principle."

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-iraq-journalist-killed,0,4873227.story