Iraqi state TV presenter shot dead

Agence France-Presse (excerpt) ^ | October 29, 2006

[HAL9000]

Excerpt -

A popular Iraqi state television presenter was kidnapped and shot dead along with her driver on Sunday in central Baghdad, close to her studio, colleagues and security officials said.

Nakshin Hamid presented broadcasts destined for Iraq's Kurdish and Christian minorities on Al-Iraqiya television and had recently been forced to move house after receiving death threats, journalists at the network told AFP.

"She was kidnapped this morning along with her colleague, the driver, as she came in to work. Less than 30 minutes later someone called us from her mobile and said: 'We killed her'," assistant news editor Abbas Aboud said.

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[oceanview]

once a month, john gambling interviews an iraqi national living in the US - a female doctor working in michigan - who reports first hand on what her family and friends are seeing in iraq. she says the professional, educated middle class is fleeing the country because of the violence. and this is exactly the demographic we need to retain there to stabilize the place.

[OldFriend]

Gambling's guest's family lives in Baghdad. That was Saddam Hussein's base of operations. I suspect they are afraid of retaliation.

Further, she herself now lives in Detroit.

[SteveMcKing]

and this is exactly the demographic we need to retain there to stabilize the place.

That was the plan. It may be better to get them out now and then incinerate the area.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Pardon my ignorance on this issue - but it seems to be rather foolish of folks like Gen. Wesley ("Run Wes, Run!") Clark to say that the answer to the status quo in Iraq is to diplomatically "engage" Syria and Iran on the matter, to bring them into the situation to stabilize Iraq so we can leave. It seems that they are already involved in the situation - and that's precisely why Iraq is unstable.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.