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Gunmen storm independent radio station in latest attack against media in Iraq
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Source: AP

BAGHDAD: Gunmen stormed the offices of an independent radio station in a predominantly Sunni area in Baghdad, killing two employees and wounding five before bombing the building and knocking the station off the air, police said.

It was the third attack in five months against the private Dijlah radio station in the Jami'a neighborhood in western Baghdad.

Karim Youssef, the station's deputy director, said gunmen also tried to kidnap four employees as they were riding to work, but the driver managed to get away.

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"Our guards and the staff resisted the attackers for 30 minutes before evacuating the building," Youssef said, adding the attackers then detonated a bomb on the first floor that destroyed all the equipment, including the transmitter.

"Now the radio is not operating," he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "We are an independent radio station depending on commercials for financing. They are targeting us because we are independent and we have no sectarian policy. Our news is balanced and we have employees from all sects and ethnic groups."


Read more: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/03/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq-Media-Attacked.php
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