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23 Aug. 2007
After kidnapping her for four hours she was released by her kidnapers, an Iraqi journalist said," I was in my way Tuesday from my house to the office of my work south of Baghdad when I was kidnapped "according to Aswat Aliraq Agency (The Voices of Iraq Agency).
She added, while insisting not to mention her name:" An armed group in tow civilian cars stopped me while I was near my residence before midday of last Tuesday in Ala'lam District south Baghdad; they forced me to ride one of their tow cars, bound my eyes, and was taken to unknown place, while they were beating me severely, to investigate with me because they thought that I am working interpreter for the American Forces. They ordered me to ask the Americans to release some of their captured colleagues, threatening that they will shed my blood if their colleagues not released from American prisons.
After long four hours of hard investigation, the Iraqi journalist said, I was released bound eyes not far from the place of my residence, about 3 o'clock p.m., suffering severe bleeding as result of broken nose and a lot of bruises.
"I have made my mind to stop working as a journalist in Iraq and depart my country" the woman who work in the office of central media of the Kurdistan National Union (PUK) led by Iraqi President Jalal Talbany.
A group of armed men fired from their machine guns an employee of semi official Assabah daily newspaper north Baghdad, according to Aswat Alirq Agency.
A source quoted by the agency on condition of keeping his name anonymous that condition of the injured employee is stable after surgical operation, without adding further information. Eyewitnesses told Aswat Aliraq: "Armed persons attacked a civilian driving his car after they disembarked from their vehicle. The victim injured by three bullets in his belly and thigh, and was taken to the nearest hospital, after the run of the attackers.
The observers in Iraq clearly notice that all crimes of killing, kidnapping and assassinations of journalist in Iraq usually committed by anonymous executors never reached to or recognized, the official Iraqi and American forces usually try all excuses to run away from this heavy responsibility, even as much as the concern those journalist who have been killed by the fire of their forces by mistake, and never prosecuted publicly who were responsible for these attacks.
Journalists and their assistant in Iraq suffered continuous assaults since the American occupation of Iraq in 2003, 214 persons worked in the fields of media, 112 were killed because of their journalist activity, beside another 40 technicians and media supporters. Ambiguity and secrecy covered other criminal acts against journalists and their technicians not because their media activity, 57 journalists and their assistant were kidnapped and most of them were killed, still 16 of them are missing. |
