Iraq PM defends media curbs, praises journalists(missing journalist found dead)

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Source: Reuters

Iraq PM defends media curbs, praises journalists
By Wissam Mohammed

BAGHDAD, April 5 (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki paid tribute on Thursday to Iraqi journalists killed covering the four-year-old conflict and defended his government's restrictions on some media.

Since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, 76 Iraqi journalists have been killed and the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists says that 12 have been kidnapped since 2004. The Iraqi Journalists' Syndicate puts the death toll at 214.

Underlining the continued threat journalists face, a Baghdad satellite television station run by the biggest Sunni political party briefly went off the air after a truck bomb exploded nearby, killing one employee and wounding 10.

The body of veteran journalist Khamail Muhsin, a reporter at a national radio station, was also found in western Baghdad on Thursday, two days after she went missing, her employers said.

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L05196735.htm

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1. Truck bomb knocks Baghdad TV station off air

Source: Reuters

Truck bomb knocks Baghdad TV station off air
Thu Apr 5, 2007 8:59AM EDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A Baghdad satellite television station run by Iraq's
biggest Sunni political party briefly went off the air on Thursday after a
suicide truck bomb attack that killed one person and wounded 10.

After an interruption lasting about 30 minutes, the channel resumed
broadcasting. It said the assistant to the station manager had been killed
and 10 members of staff wounded, four of them critically.

The bomb exploded meters away from the television station in Jamiaa district
in western Baghdad, setting nearby cars ablaze.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSCOL54012020070405

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