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ReutersIraq 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.
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