US journalist kidnapped in Iraq
A US journalist has been kidnapped and an accompanying translator killed in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, police say.
The body of the translator, along with identity papers, have been recovered.
The journalist and the translator were reported to have been on a visit to the Sunni coalition headquarters in the city's western Adel district.
Western journalists and aid workers have frequently been targeted for kidnapping in the country by insurgents and criminal groups.
I'd bet a dollar to a donut that it was another planned setup by a leftist stooge terrorist sympathizer reporterette to get the government of whaqtever country she calls home to pay a big ransom for her.
US woman journalist kidnapped in Iraq
A US woman journalist was kidnapped in Baghdad Saturday and her translator killed, Iraqi security sources said, in the latest hostage crisis involving Westerners in the war-torn country.
"An American journalist is missing. We are investigating," said US embassy spokeswoman Elizabeth Colton, who declined to name the missing reporter.
Iraqi security officials said the journalist was abducted by armed men in the Adl district of western Baghdad and her translator found dead.
An Iraqi defence ministry official said the interpreter was able to tell soldiers that a US journalist was kidnapped before he died.
Officials said the journalist was seized as she was on her way to interview prominent Sunni Arab politician Adnan al-Dulaimi.
A guard outside Dulaimi's office told AFP he heard gunshots fired a short distance away and rushed to find the body of a slain man.
Dulaimi however told AFP he had no appointment to meet a Western journalist.
People living in the neighbourhood, which has been cordoned off by US and Iraqi security forces, were frightened and refused to talk to journalists.
Several Westerners are already being held hostage by insurgents in Iraq, including an American, a Briton and two Canadians, all members of a Christian peace group.
I have no sympathy for Al-quaida loving journalists (& I figure that's about 98% of them, especially including "Americans") when they get kidnapped or worse by the folks they are supporting.