Another journalist targeted, Nafeez Ahmed's relative shot at Point Blank..

[lala_rawraw]

Nafeez Ahmed is an amazing person, critic of both Bush and Blair, and a London scholar. He is a contributing writer for Raw Story. Over the weekend, his uncle was shot in the head point blank.

"My uncle in Bangladesh had been shot on Saturday morning while I was speaking on my panel in Bradford. A nationally-respected professor of political science at Dhaka University, Dr. Aftab Ahmed, had been attacked in his own home on the university premises by unidentified gun-men, who had pushed their way into the apartment and shot him four times at close range in the upper body, in the presence of his wife (my aunt) and 9-year old disabled daughter (my cousin)."

http://nafeez.blogspot.com/2006/09/biting-mangos-and-bullets-from_26.html


Please send kind words to Dr. Ahmed. Seems it is war on journalists.

[autorank]

1. Unbelievable...

Correct me if I'm wrong but Nafeez Ahmed wrote one of the best analysts of the recent attack on Lebanon around. In any event, murder, like torture and the rest of the bestial practices, is totally unacceptable. The trauma that his wife and daughter is nearly as cruel a fate as that of their
father. Where is a world leader who speaks out against these attacks?

[lala_rawraw]

2. He actually did and also the liquid bombing

attackers in London... he debunked the whole thing, it was an amazing piece.

[autorank]

5. Wow, that's one of my favorite debunking jobs.

Well, next to that NY tunnel deal.

[SPKrazy]

3. Jeebus LaLa

keep your head down please

what an insane world

we're all being slowly labeled as the enemy of the state I'm afraid.

I saw that he debunked the liquid explosive story below.

man, I keep going back to frogs slowly boiling

take care of yourself

[Recursion]

4. Hmmm... from what I've seen of Ahmed's work...

...he's one of the last people I'd want as a determined and lifelong enemy. I don't know if these guys knew what they were getting into.