Baghdad - The body of Fleh Dway Megthab, editor of Iraq's
state-owned newspaper al-Sabah, was discovered Sunday in a Baghdad
forensic department morgue, a newspaper source said.
The body was found four days after his abduction by unidentified
gunmen from his house in al-Habebiya neighborhood, the al-Sabah
newspaper source told the Independent News Agency (formerly known as
Voices of Iraq).
'The body of Fleh Dway was found on Sunday in Baghdad's morgue
with bullet shots to the head,' said the source, who had spoken on
condition of anonymity.
Dway, 53, and his son were reported kidnapped last Wednesday after
three vehicles intercepted his car as he left his house.
According to the agency, the Journalist Freedoms Observatory (JFO)
had called on the kidnappers last Friday to release Dway. It also
called on the Iraqi security apparatus to probe the incident.
Official statistics released by the Iraqi Journalists' Syndicate
place the number of victims of violence among journalists since 2003
at 250.
Meanwhile, a government curfew was lifted in Baghdad Sunday, four
days after it was imposed following a bomb attack on a Shiite mosque
in northern Iraq.
Schools, government buildings and businesses were reopened and
people were reported to be visiting markets in large numbers, despite
the possibility of attacks.
However, a government official said the curfew in the northern
city of Samarra, where one of the holiest Shiite religious sites was
bombed Wednesday, was not raised.
The curfews were imposed because of fear of reprisals. According
to the Sunni Association of Religious Scholars, 20 Sunni mosques have
been attacked across Iraq since Wednesday.
An office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in Kirkuk was
meanwhile struck by a car bomb Sunday, police said, killing two
Kurdish security force members and wounding four.
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