Knight-Ridder: Iraq reporter shot to death by U.S. sniper

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http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/12016097.htm


By Tom Lasseter
Knight Ridder Newspapers

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Yasser Salihee, an Iraqi special correspondent for Knight Ridder, was shot to death in Baghdad last Friday.

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.

Salihee, 30, had the day off and was driving alone near his home in the western Baghdad neighborhood of Amariyah when a single bullet pierced his windshield and then his skull.

He was shot as his car neared a joint patrol of American and Iraqi troops who’d stopped to search a building for snipers. American and Iraqi soldiers are frequently targeted by suicide car bombers.

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1. Here is a picture of the reporter who was killed

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2. It indeed the shot was by a sniper, then it indeed was intentional