Peaceful in Basra - British Supported Fundamentalist Death Squads

Now we hear why there is little insurgency in the south of Iraq. British forces are in league with fundamentalist death squads to impose an Iranian style regime. When an American - should be protected by the Empire - complains, he pays the price.

Apparently, even being on the international news isn't enough to deter the killers. After all, American soldiers can target reporters, why not them.


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Iraq
August 03, 2005

Basra blogger is abducted and murdered

By Jenny Booth, Times Online

Steven Vincent

A freelance American journalist who wrote about alleged corruption and lawlessness in the Iraqi city of Basra has been abducted at gunpoint and shot dead.
Steven Vincent's body was recovered at the side of a road south of Basra late last night, several hours after he and his female translator were kidnapped as they left a currency exchange shop, within sight of a British military checkpoint.

He had been shot three times in the chest. Nouriya Itais, the translator, who was also his fiancee, was shot four times and seriously wounded, according to a nurse in a Basra hospital.