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<br><br> Another dead independent journalist <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :x --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/sick.gif ALT=":x"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br> <br> WSWS : News & Analysis : Middle East : Iraq<br><br>Journalist killed after investigating US-backed death squads in Iraq<br>By James Cogan<br>1 July 2005<br>Use this version to print | Send this link by email | Email the author<br><br>On June 24, Yasser Salihee, an Iraqi special correspondent for the news agency Knight Ridder, was killed by a single bullet to the head as he approached a checkpoint that had been thrown up near his home in western Baghdad by US and Iraqi troops. It is believed that the shot was fired by an American sniper. According to eyewitnesses, no warning shots were fired.<br><br>The US military has announced it is conducting an investigation into Salihee’s killing. Knight Ridder has already declared, however, that “there’s no reason to think that the shooting had anything to do with his reporting work”. In fact, his last assignment gives reason to suspect that it was.<br><br>Over the past month, Salihee had been gathering evidence that US-backed Iraqi forces have been carrying out extra-judicial killings of alleged members and supporters of the anti-occupation resistance. His investigation followed a feature in the New York Times magazine in May, detailing how the US military had modeled the Iraqi interior ministry police commandos, known as the Wolf Brigade, on the death squads unleashed in the 1980s to crush the left-wing insurgency in El Salvador.<br><br> Full article.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/iraq-j01.shtml">www.wsws.org/articles/200...-j01.shtml</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>