https://freerepublic.com/tag/nouritais/ en-us Wed, 3 Aug 2005 14:30:26 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1456070/posts A freelance American journalist who wrote about alleged corruption and lawlessness in the Iraqi city of Basra has been abducted at gunpoint and shot dead. Steven Vincent's body was recovered at the side of a road south of Basra late last night, several hours after he and his female translator were kidnapped as they left a currency exchange shop, within sight of a British military checkpoint. He had been shot three times in the chest. Nouriya Itais, the translator, who was also his fiancee, was shot four times and seriously wounded, according to a nurse in a Basra hospital. The... Times On Line.UK https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1456070/posts#comment Wed, 3 Aug 2005 14:30:26 GMT