American journalist kidnapped in Iraq

[Barrett808]

BAGHDAD, Iraq (UPI) -- Iraqi police officials said Saturday unidentified gunmen have kidnapped an American female journalist after killing her Iraqi translator in Baghdad.

They said the driver of the bus in which the journalist and translator were riding managed to escape the incident when he fled and sought the help of a police patrol that happened to be in the same area at the time.

The woman and the translator were attacked by gunmen in the Arab Sunni district of al-Adel in western Baghdad as they were heading to meet the head of the Sunni Iraqi Accord Front, Adnan al-Dulaimi.

The name of the journalist was not released.

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http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/article_1074119.php/American_journalist_kidnapped_in_Iraq

[tularetom]

1. I'm al;most ashamed to say

what I thought when I read "an American female journalist".

[marylanddem]

2. Wonder why they're not releasing her name? n/t

[stray cat]

6. Hopefully because they are notifying relatives

Friends and relatives don't need to hear this on the news first.

[Cooley Hurd]

3. I wonder why they aren't releasing her name?

CNN broke with this about an hour ago - I wonder if she's affiliated with them?:shrug:

[JohnyCanuck]

4. Don't blow this out of proportion,

Journalists get kidnapped off the streets of Washington and Los Angeles every day. :sarcasm:

[marylanddem]

5. With all the journalists in Baghdad, it seems strange

that someone hasn't released/leaked her name - surely a network of reporters would know who it is if the story is true.
Maybe it's a b.s. story.

[asjr]

8. Maybe it was Special Ops who grabbed her. For

propaganda purposes. I would not put it past them.

[Greyhound]

7. Another triumph for the shrubCo mis-administration

Actually a double victory, a reporter and a woman. If we had any intestinal fortitude in this country we would decorate the fence around the whitehouse with their heads. :grr: