Baghdad TV correspondent murdered-U.S. media group

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NEW YORK, Sept 18 (Reuters) - A television correspondent in Iraq was shot and killed on Monday as he chatted with friends outside a mosque after prayers, the U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists said.

The committee condemned the murder of Ahmed Riyadh al-Karbouli, 25, who worked for Baghdad TV -- a satellite channel owned by the Sunni Iraqi Islamic Party -- and was shot by six men in two cars in Ramadi, west of Baghdad.

"Journalists in Ramadi report under intolerable conditions without any protection to tell the world what is happening in this hotbed of the Iraqi insurgency," CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon said.

The committee said al-Karbouli had received numerous death threat from insurgents over the past four months warning him to leave Baghdad TV.

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