Iraqi journo kidnapped, shot
19/09/2005 10:41  - (SA)  

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Basra - Iraqi journalist Fakher Haidar al-Tamimi, who worked for foreign media in the country, was found shot dead on Monday in the southern city of Basra after he was kidnapped overnight, his wife said.

"Eight masked gunmen kidnapped him around 01:00 on Sunday from his house in the Al-Asmaey neighbourhood," she said. "They tied his hands saying they were police and they would bring him back after interrogation."

Tamimi's body was found on Monday in Al-Kiblah, a southwestern district of Basra. "He was shot in the head," his wife said.

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