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Suicide bomber attacks Iraq newspaper
NY Times ^ | August 27 2006 | Paul von Zielbauer

Posted on 08/28/2006 12:54:20 PM PDT by jmc1969

A suicide car bomber attacked Iraq's largest newspaper, detonating his vehicle inside its fortified compound in downtown Baghdad on Sunday and killing 2 people and wounding 20 others, the executive editor and government officials said. snip.

"The terrorists are trying to stop the media project in Iraq," he said in an interview last month. "We have received many threats from Zarqawi's assistants. We published them in the newspaper." He said the bombing Sunday had also been retaliation for his newspaper's organizing a meeting of Iraqi television and newspaper editors this month to sign a "pledge of honor" to respect the government's reconciliation efforts and to avoid printing or broadcasting inflammatory statements or violent images. snip

"Tomorrow we will return to work again," the editor said.

(Excerpt) Read more at iht.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iraq; iraqimedia

1 posted on 08/28/2006 12:54:21 PM PDT by jmc1969
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To: jmc1969

Too bad the NY Times would never sign a pledge of honor to support our own government in wartime.


2 posted on 08/28/2006 1:00:44 PM PDT by Argus
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To: Argus
Suicide bomber attacks Iraq newspaper

He couldn't just send a letter to the editor?

3 posted on 08/28/2006 1:01:23 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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