Thursday, June 30, 2005

Knight Ridder Correspondent Shot Dead in Baghdad

Yasser Salihee, an Iraqi special correspondent for Knight Ridder, was shot to death in Baghdad last Friday, according to a KR report on Wednesday. He was hailed by Knight Ridder as one of its best reporters in Iraq.
"The shot appears to have been fired by a U.S. military sniper, though there were Iraqi soldiers in the area who also may have been shooting at the time," wrote veteran Knight Ridder Baghdad correspondent Tom Lasseter.

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