Senior Iraqi journalist kidnapped in Baghdad

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Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Police say a senior Iraqi journalist has been kidnapped in Baghdad, in the latest attack against the media in Iraq.

Gunmen in a convoy of cars seized Filaih Wadi Mijthab, managing editor of the state-run al-Sabah daily newspaper, while he was being driven with his son in Shiite-dominated Sadr City in east Baghdad.

The son and driver were not taken.

The media have been consistently targeted in Iraq's bloody sectarian conflict, making it one of the most dangerous places in the world to report.

Mr Mijthab's abduction would be the eighth of a journalist this year in the country, according to a count kept by the Paris-based media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders, in addition to the 27 who have died while doing their job.

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