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  • Freedom’s Reporter

    08/03/2005 7:07:50 PM PDT · by dervish · 2 replies · 321+ views
    National Review Online ^ | 8/3/05 | Kathryn Jean Lopez
    Steven Vincent is murdered in pursuit of truth. "An Iraqi police lieutenant, who for obvious reasons asked to remain anonymous, confirmed to me the widespread rumors that a few police officers are perpetrating many of the hundreds of assassinations — mostly of former Baath Party members — that take place in Basra each month. He told me that there is even a sort of "death car": a white Toyota Mark II that glides through the city streets, carrying off-duty police officers in the pay of extremist religious groups to their next assignment." So wrote American freelance journalist Steven Vincent in...