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28 Aug. 2007
The corpse of the journalist Anwar Abas Lefteh who worked for CBS News Television was found after being kidnapped before a week by 8 to 10 armed men, according to a brief news by CbS.
The Satellite Television Net said that the cousin of late Lefteh received a telephone call from the police reporting the discovery of his cousin body north Alsader District in Baghdad. The corpse was recognized by his family. The kidnapers were negotiated his family for ransom.
CBS Television said that Anwar Abas an Iraqi, who worked for her since 10 months, was kidnapped on the twentieth of August by a group of armed men breaking his residence fight against his brother and shot his sister's arm.
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.
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